ARCHAEOLOGIST

Jean-François Champollion

1790 - 1832

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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. Partially raised by his brother, the scholar Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Champollion was a child prodigy in philology, giving his first public paper on the decipherment of Demotic in his late teens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-François Champollion has received more than 1,069,784 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Jean-François Champollion is the most popular archaeologist, the 69th most popular biography from France (up from 90th in 2019) and the most popular French Archaeologist.

Jean-François Champollion is most famous for deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Jean-François Champollion ranks 1 out of 151. After him are Heinrich Schliemann, Theodor Mommsen, Howard Carter, Den, Arthur Evans, Edward Drinker Cope, Semerkhet, Zahi Hawass, Nynetjer, Marija Gimbutas, and Christian Jürgensen Thomsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Jean-François Champollion ranks 1. After him are Leopold I of Belgium, August Ferdinand Möbius, Alphonse de Lamartine, Sunjo of Joseon, John Tyler, George Everest, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Nicolas Chauvin, John Frederic Daniell, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and John Austin. Among people deceased in 1832, Jean-François Champollion ranks 3. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Napoleon II. After him are Évariste Galois, Walter Scott, Jeremy Bentham, Georges Cuvier, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Jean-Baptiste Say, Muzio Clementi, Rasmus Rask, and Friedrich Kuhlau.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-François Champollion ranks 69 out of 6,770. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Louis Philippe I (1773), Louis de Funès (1914), Michel Foucault (1926), François Rabelais (1494), and Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933). After him are Henri Bergson (1859), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Edgar Degas (1834), Charles X of France (1757), Maximilien Robespierre (1758), and Jacques-Louis David (1748).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Jean-François Champollion ranks 1. After him are Austen Henry Layard (1817), Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), Paul Pelliot (1878), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Henri Breuil (1877), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), Victor Loret (1859), Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778), André Parrot (1901), and Pierre Montet (1885).

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