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Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)
Source: WordNetAt Philae Champollion spent several days recovering from an attack of gout brought on by the hard trip, and he also received letters from his wife and brother, both sent many months earlier. Source: Internet
However, after more than a week of waiting for the permissions Champollion suspected that Drovetti was working against him and took a complaint to the French consulate. Source: Internet
Arriving in Dendera on November 16, Champollion was excited to see the Zodiac that he had deciphered in Paris. Source: Internet
Finally, Jean-François Champollion made the complete decipherment by the 1820s. Source: Internet
He made the first major advances in this area; he also correctly identified Demotic as being composed by both ideographic and phonetic signs.sfn Subsequently, Young felt that Champollion was unwilling to share the credit for the decipherment. Source: Internet
Budge (1904) vol. 1 pp. 59–134 In the early 1970s, French visitors complained that the portrait of Champollion was smaller than one of Young on an adjacent information panel; English visitors complained that the opposite was true. Source: Internet