Thomas Young (1773-1829) was an English physician who was one of
the first modern scholars to attempt to decipher ancient Egyptian
hieroglyphs, and made significant contributions to a variety of
other academic disciplines. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society in 1794 and in 1803 published an article establishing the
wave theory of light. Young became interested in hieroglyphs in
1814, when he was sent a fragment of papyrus from Egypt. After
acquiring a copy of the Rosetta Stone inscriptions Young made rapid
progress, publishing his results in 1816 and 1819. When Champollion
published his groundbreaking work on hieroglyphs in 1822 Young
believed that Champollion had based that work on his earlier
translations without acknowledgement, which Champollion denied.
This book was published in 1823 in an attempt by Young to lay
'public claim to whatever credit be my due', and provides a summary
of his hieroglyphic research.
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