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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 1,010,396 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-François Champollion is the most popular archaeologist (up from 2nd in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from France (up from 133rd 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 104. After him are Heinrich Schliemann, Theodor Mommsen, Howard Carter, Arthur Evans, Den, Edward Drinker Cope, Semerkhet, Zahi Hawass, Marija Gimbutas, Nynetjer, and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-François Champollion ranks 90 out of 6,011. Before him are Edward IV of England (1442), Louis Philippe I (1773), Charles X of France (1757), Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), and Napoleon II (1811). After him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Maurice Ravel (1875), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), Madame de Pompadour (1721), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), and Henry II of France (1519).

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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), Henri Breuil (1877), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913), Victor Loret (1859), François Bordes (1919), and André Parrot (1901).

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