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Definition of Jean Francois Champollion
1. Noun. Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jean Francois Champollion
Literary usage of Jean Francois Champollion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria (1904)
"This was the great secret which Young missed, but which his French successor,
Jean Francois Champollion, working on the Jean Francois Champollion. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Champollion-Figeac was a brother of Jean- Francois Champollion, the Egyptologist.
He was custodian of the manuscripts of the Biblio- thet/iie Nationale, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"As it was, the principle of the popedom to lie the CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC, JEAN
JACQUES (1778- 1867), elder brother of Jean Francois Champollion, was born at ..."
4. Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books by Baron Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Samuel Birch, Charles Herbert Cottrell (1867)
"Jean Francois Champollion, surnamed Le Jeune, as younger brother of M.
Champollion-Figeac, was born in the neighbourhood of Grenoble in 1790, and appeared ..."
5. The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1894)
"J Jean Francois Champollion, surnamed le Jeune, the immortal discoverer of a
correct system of decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics, was born at Figeac on ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... true credit for the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics and for the
foundation of modern Egyptology belongs to Jean Francois Champollion (qv). ..."
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