Les deux Champollions, leur vie et leurs oeuvres - Leur correspondance archeologique relative au Dauphine et a l'Egypte (French, Paperback)

This biography of the Champollion brothers was published in Grenoble in 1887. Jean-Fran ois (1790 1832) was a child prodigy who had taught himself numerous ancient languages in his teenage years, despite not having received any formal education. Having become an assistant professor of history at Grenoble in his nineteenth year, Jean-Fran ois published a decipherment of the trilingual Rosetta Stone in 1824, thus offering the key to an understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics and consequently of the civilisation of ancient Egypt. His older brother, Jacques-Joseph (1778 1867), although a less gifted scholar, supported Jean-Fran ois and kept his name and achievement before the public after his early death. Jacques-Joseph's son Aim -Louis (1813 94), the author of this biographical account, followed in his father's footsteps, becoming the librarian of the Biblioth que Royale and publishing works on palaeography. Based on original letters, this is the only near-contemporary biography of the pioneering Egyptologist.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
Release date:	November 2011
First published:	November 2011
Authors:	Aime Champollion-Figeac
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-03535-4
Languages:	French
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Middle & Near Eastern archaeology > Egyptian archaeology
LSN:	1-108-03535-3
Barcode:	9781108035354

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