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Jean-François Champollion (French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ʃɑ̃pɔljɔ̃]), also known as Champollion le jeune ('the Younger'; 23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832), was a French philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology.
The Champollion Museum (French: Musée Champollion) is located in Figeac, Lot, France. It houses a collection devoted to Figeac's most famous son, Jean-François Champollion . It was inaugurated 19 December 1986 in the presence of President François Mitterrand and Jean Leclant , secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie des Inscriptions et ...
The National University Institute Jean-Francois Champollion (French: Institut national universitaire Jean-François Champollion, pronounced [ɛ̃stity nɑsjɔnal ynivɛʁsitɛːʁ ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ʃɑ̃pɔljɔ̃]), formerly known as Jean-Francois Champollion University Center for Teaching and Research (Centre universitaire de formation et de recherche Jean-François Champollion) is a French ...
Jean-François Champollion in 1823, holding his list of phonetic hieroglyphic signs. Portrait by Victorine-Angélique-Amélie Rumilly [].. The writing systems used in ancient Egypt were deciphered in the early nineteenth century through the work of several European scholars, especially Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young.
Lettre à M. Dacier (full title: Lettre à M. Dacier relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques: "Letter to M. Dacier concerning the alphabet of the phonetic hieroglyphs") is a letter sent in 1822 by the Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion to Bon-Joseph Dacier, secretary of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Champollion's sudden death in 1832 left to the saddened Rosellini the whole responsibility of publishing the report of the expedition: between 1832 and 1843 he exposed the results in his most famous work, I Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia, composed of three parts and nine volumes for a total of 3,300 text pages and 395 illustrated plates. [2]
Detail of a stone tablet found in a tomb at Thebes, discovered by the Earl of Belmore.Lithograph made by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1818), reproduced on the back cover.. The book Champollion: Un scribe pour l'Égypte, on which the film is based, is an illustrated biography of the decipherer of hieroglyphs, published in pocket format by Éditions Gallimard on 23 November 1990.
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