Jean-François Champollion
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French classical scholar
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- Doctorate Egyptology Université Paris Cité
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jean-François Champollion , also known as Champollion le jeune , was a French philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology. Partially raised by his brother, the scholar Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Champollion was a child prodigy in philology, giving his first public paper on the decipherment of Demotic in his mid-teens. As a young man he was renowned in scientific circles, and spoke Coptic, Ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic.
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