Jean-François Champollion
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1790 – 1832
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Who was Jean-François Champollion?
Jean-François Champollion was a French scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Champollion published the first translation of the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs in 1822, showing that the Egyptian writing system was a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs.
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- Born
- Dec 23, 1790
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- Jean-Francois Champollion
- Siblings
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 4, 1832
Paris - Resting place
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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