Jean-François Champollion, French philologist and scholar (born 1790)

Jean-François Champollion

French classical scholar, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs (1790–1832)

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…