ARCHAEOLOGIST

Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac

1778 - 1867

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Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (French: [ʃɑ̃pɔljɔ̃ fiʒak]), also known as Champollion l'aîné ('the Elder'; 5 October 1778 – 9 May 1867) was a French archaeologist, elder brother of Jean-François Champollion (decipherer of the Rosetta Stone). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac has received more than 8,072 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac is the 64th most popular archaeologist, the 3,425th most popular biography from France and the 10th most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac ranks 64 out of 151. Before him are Adolf Furtwängler, Johan David Åkerblad, Robert Broom, Victor Loret, Alan Gardiner, and Charles W. Gilmore. After him are André Parrot, Giuseppe Tucci, José Bonaparte, Pierre Montet, Peter Wilhelm Lund, and François Bordes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac ranks 31. Before him are Augustinos Kapodistrias, Sigismund von Neukomm, Honoré V, Prince of Monaco, Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, and Joseph Lancaster. After him are Carl Ludwig Koch, Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Joseph Aspdin, William Hazlitt, and Anders Sandøe Ørsted. Among people deceased in 1867, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac ranks 39. Before him are Jean Pierre Flourens, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Jacques Ignace Hittorff, Simon Sechter, and Ramón Castilla. After him are Ignatius Brianchaninov, Georgi Sava Rakovski, Benoît Fourneyron, Alexander Petrov, August Böckh, and Santiago Derqui.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac ranks 3,425 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Laplanche (1924), Sandrine Bonnaire (1967), Yvon Douis (1935), Gunnor (950), E. D. Morel (1873), and Jean Rotrou (1609). After him are Alex Thépot (1906), Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948), Marguerite Durand (1864), Camille Guérin (1872), Marcel Granet (1884), and Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac ranks 10. Before him are Paul Pelliot (1878), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Henri Breuil (1877), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), and Victor Loret (1859). After him are André Parrot (1901), Pierre Montet (1885), François Bordes (1919), Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913), Jean-François Séguier (1703), and Paul Rivet (1876).

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