Jean-François Champollion

For the Champollion comet rendezvous spacecraft, see Champollion (spacecraft).

Jean-François Champollion (23 December 1790–4 March 1832) is remembered particularly for one achievement: his translation of the Rosetta stone, which became the basis of the study of Egyptian hieroglyphics. From [1], in the public domain This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Champollion was a planned cometary rendezvous and landing spacecraft. ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... 1790 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Rosetta Stone solved a particularly difficult linguistic problem. ... Hieroglyphs are a system of writing used by the Ancient Egyptians, using a combination of logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements. ...

He was born at Figeac, Lot, in France and showed an extraordinary linguistic talent, even as a child. By the age of 16 he had mastered a dozen languages and by 20 this included Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Amharic, Sanskrit, Avestan, Pahlavi, Arabic, Syriac, Chaldean, Persian, and Chinese in addition to his native French. In 1809, he became Professor of History at Grenoble. His interest in oriental languages, especially Coptic, led to his being entrusted with the task of deciphering the writing on the recently-discovered Rosetta Stone, and he spent the years 1822–1824 on this task, greatly expanding the works of Thomas Young on the area, which proved the key to the study of Egyptology. He also identified the importance of the Turin King List. Figeac is a little town in the Lot département in Quercy, Midi-Pyrénées, southwestern France. ... Lot is a département in the southwest of France named after the Lot River. ... Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ... Amharic (አማርኛ) is a Semitic language spoken in Northern Central Ethiopia, where it is the official language. ... The Sanskrit language ( संस्कृता वाक्) is one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family and is not only a classical language, but also an official language of India. ... Yasna 28. ... Pahlavi is a term that refers: (1) to a script used in Iran derived from the Aramaic script, and (2) more broadly, to Middle Persian, the Middle Iranian language written in this script. ... Arabic (العربية) is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Syriac is an Eastern Aramaic language that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. ... Some factual claims in this article need to be verified. ... Persian (فارسی), (local name in India, Iran and Afghanistan: Fârsi), Pârsi (older local name, but still used by some speakers), Tajik (a Central Asian dialect) or Dari (Another local name in Afghanistan), is a language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Bahrain and Uzbekistan. ... 1809 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... View of Grenoble, 2002, with the snowy peaks of the Dauphiné Alps Location within France Grenoble ( Occitan: Grasanòbol) is a city and commune in south-east France, situated at the foot of the Alps, at the confluence of the Drac into the Isère River. ... The Coptic Language is the last phase of the Egyptian languages, and is the direct descendant of the ancient Egyptian language written in the hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts. ... Decipherment is the analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost. ... The Rosetta Stone solved a particularly difficult linguistic problem. ... 1822 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Thomas Young, English scientist Thomas Young (June 13, 1773 – May 10, 1829) was an English scientist and researcher. ... Egyptology is the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian antiquities and is a regional and thematic branch of the larger disciplines of ancient history and archaeology. ... The Turin King List also known as the Turin Royal Canon, is a unique papyrus, written in hieratic, currently in the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) at Turin, to which it owes its modern name. ...

Champollion was subsequently created Professor of Egyptology at the Collège de France. However, exhausted by his labours during and after his scientific expedition to Egypt between 1828 and 1830, he died of an apoplectic attack in Paris in 1832 at the age of 41 and is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery. The Collège de France is a higher education teaching and research establishment located in Paris, France. ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Apoplexy is an old-fashioned medical term, generally used interchangeably with cerebrovascular accident (CVA or stroke) but having other meanings as well. ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Cimetière du Père Lachaise is the largest cemetery in Paris, and one of the most famous cemeteries in the world. ...

External links

• http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/winter95_96/giants.html
• Resources on Biblical Archaeology (http://www.BiblicalArcheology.Net)