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Champollion, Jean-Francois

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"Jean-François Champollion (1790 - 1832)," BBC.com, accessed May 5th 2015, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/champollion_jean.shtml
Andrews, Emma B. Journal on the Bedawin, Volume 1 : 1889-1890.

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Champollion studied ancient languages at the Académie de Grenoble and the Collège de France before becoming the director of the Egyptian Museum at the Louvre in Paris. He is well known for his study of Egyptian hieroglyphics and discovering similarities between texts written in hieroglyphs and other ancient scripts. At the time of his death, he was working on an Egyptian dictionary.

Birth Date

December 22nd 1790

Birthplace

France

Death Date

March 4th 1832

Occupation

Scholar, Egyptologist, Philologist

Bibliography

Champollion, M le jeune (1822). Lettre à M. Dacier relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques. Paris.
Champollion, M le jeune (1824). Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens Égyptiens.

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“Champollion, Jean-Francois,” The Emma B. Andrews Diary Project, accessed April 24, 2024, http://www.emmabandrews.org/project/items/show/107.

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