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Johan David Akerblad (1763-1819) contributed to the decipherment of
Egyptian hieroglyphs and Demotic and is known as a predecessor of
Jean-Francois Champollion. This intellectual biography offers a new
and less heroic interpretation of the first reading of the Egyptian
scripts. Akerblad, an exceptional linguist, was a diplomat and
orientalist who spent several decades living in the Ottoman Empire,
France and Italy. Of humble birth, he was a supporter of the French
Revolution - something that stymied his career. His life cannot be
understood in a purely Swedish national framework, and this study
firmly situates him as an international scholar. The book discusses
European expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean during the
tumultuous decades around the year 1800, and traces Akerblad's
momentous life in relation to the debates on 'orientalism,' the
tradition of classical studies and the history of science.
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