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Jean-François Champollion was a French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist who deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Champollion was a linguistic genius who could speak a dozen languages. When the Rosetta Stone which contained script in three languages including the hieroglyphics that had yet to be translated. Champollion published the first translation of the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs in 1824 after two years of work.He demonstrated that the Egyptian writing system was a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs. His 1824 work Précis du système hiéroglyphique was the beginning of the entire field of modern Egyptology. He died suddenly on March 4, 1842 at the age of forty-one.
Tomorrow, The Rosetta Stone Rita Bay
Filed under: Heroic Hunks in History Tagged: | Jean-Francois Champollion. Rosetta Stone, Rosetta Stone
interesting fellow. What did he die from, Rita?
Complicated. The short answer was that he died of a stroke. But how often do 40+ year olds die of strokes? He also had TB, gout, and schistosomiasis (a nasty bacterial infection) that he may have picked up on his one trip to Egypt.
true. It is unusual