Jean-François Champollion
1790 to 1832
17 documented presences
11 places
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Jean-François Champollion, 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.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Jean-François Champollion was documented, and when
23 December 1790exact date
Figeacattested
“du Lot le 23 décembre 1790, décédé à Paris le 4 mars 1832 (Here rests Jean-François Champollion, born at Figeac, Department of the Lot, on 23 December 1790, died at Paris on 4 March 1832).”
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23 December 1790exact date
Parisattested
“du Lot le 23 décembre 1790, décédé à Paris le 4 mars 1832 (Here rests Jean-François Champollion, born at Figeac, Department of the Lot, on 23 December 1790, died at Paris on 4 March 1832).”
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March 1801month
Figeacattested
“Towards the end of March 1801, Jean-François left Figeac for Grenoble, which he reached on 27 March, and where Jacques-Joseph lived in a two-room flat on the rue Neuve.”
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1804year
Grenobleattested
“[...] I will meet with a Coptic priest named Chiftichi at the Saint-Roch Church to learn more about Coptic names and letter pronunciation." From 1804, Champollion studied at a lycée in Grenoble but hated its strict curriculum, which only…”
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1804year
Saint-Roch, Parisattested
“[...] I will meet with a Coptic priest named Chiftichi at the Saint-Roch Church to learn more about Coptic names and letter pronunciation." From 1804, Champollion studied at a lycée in Grenoble but hated its strict curriculum, which only…”
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January 1806month
Ancient Egyptattested
“Jean-François had by then already developed a strong interest in Ancient Egypt, as he wrote in a letter to his parents dated January 1806: :"I want to make a profound and continuous study of this ancient nation.”
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1807 to 1809period
Parisattested
“From 1807 to 1809, Champollion studied in Paris, under Silvestre de Sacy, the first Frenchman to attempt to read the Rosetta stone, and with orientalist Louis-Mathieu Langlès, and with Raphaël de Monachis who was now in Paris.”
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1810year
Grenobleattested
“In 1810, he returned to Grenoble to take up a seat as joint professor of Ancient History at the newly reopened Grenoble University.”
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1814year
Royal Societyattested
“Young and Champollion first became aware of each other's work in 1814 when Champollion wrote to the Royal Society of which Young was the secretary, requesting better transcriptions of the Rosetta stone, to Young's irritation, arrogantly…”
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1814year
Young'sattested
“Young and Champollion first became aware of each other's work in 1814 when Champollion wrote to the Royal Society of which Young was the secretary, requesting better transcriptions of the Rosetta stone, to Young's irritation, arrogantly…”
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1828year
Young'sattested
“Champollion never admitted any debt to Young's work, although in 1828, a year before his death, Young was appointed to the French Academy of Sciences, with Champollion's support.”
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1828year
French Academyattested
“Champollion never admitted any debt to Young's work, although in 1828, a year before his death, Young was appointed to the French Academy of Sciences, with Champollion's support.”
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12 March 1831exact date
Collège de Franceattested
“After his return from the second expedition to Egypt, Champollion was appointed to the chair of Egyptian history and archaeology at the Collège de France, a chair that had been specially created for him by a decree of Louis Philippe I da…”
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12 March 1831exact date
Egyptattested
“After his return from the second expedition to Egypt, Champollion was appointed to the chair of Egyptian history and archaeology at the Collège de France, a chair that had been specially created for him by a decree of Louis Philippe I da…”
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12 March 1831exact date
4 March 1832exact date
4 March 1832exact date
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Places Jean-François Champollion is documented in
Paris3 presences · 1790 to 1832Egypt2 presences · 1831 to 1832Grenoble2 presences · 1804 to 1810
Figeac2 presences · 1790 to 1801
Young's2 presences · 1814 to 1828
Coll1 presence · 1831Collège de France1 presence · 1831Royal Society1 presence · 1814Ancient Egypt1 presence · 1806
French Academy1 presence · 1828
Saint-Roch, Paris1 presence · 1804
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1805year
Grenoblementioned
“He had a chance to practice his Coptic when he met Dom Raphaël de Monachis, a former Egyptian Christian monk of Syrian origin and Arabic translator to Napoleon, who visited Grenoble in 1805.”
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1806year
Parismentioned
“This is the real way for me to put my pure Egyptian into my head." By 1806, Jacques-Joseph was making preparations to bring his younger brother to Paris to study at the university.”
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1815year
French Rivieramentioned
“In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from his exile on Elba and landed with an army at the Côte d'Azur and marched directly on Grenoble where he was received as a liberator.”
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1815 to 1817period
Abu Simbelmentioned
“They arrived at Abu Simbel on 26 November, the site had been visited by Bankes and Belzoni in 1815 and 1817 respectively, but the sand that they had cleared from the entrance had now returned.”
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1819year
Young'smentioned
“In the Précis, Champollion referred to Young's 1819 claim of having deciphered the script when he wrote that: This task was exactly what Champollion set out to accomplish in the Précis, and the entire framing of the argument was as a reb…”
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1822year
Rosettamentioned
“In 1822 Champollion received transcriptions of the text on the recently discovered Philae obelisk, which enabled him to double-check his readings of the names Ptolemy and Cleopatra from the Rosetta stone.”
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14 September 1822exact date
Abu Simbelmentioned
“It was on 14 September 1822, while comparing his readings to a set of new texts from Abu Simbel, that he made the realization.”
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1823year
Cabinet des Médaillesmentioned
“It was only in 1823 that Grotefend's discovery was confirmed, when Champollion, who had just deciphered hieroglyphs, had the idea of trying to decrypt the quadrilingual hieroglyph-cuneiform inscription on a famous alabaster vase in the C…”
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1824year
Turinmentioned
“Thanks to this, in 1824, he travelled to Turin to inspect a collection of Egyptian materials assembled by Bernardino Drovetti, which King Charles X had purchased, cataloguing it.”
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1826 to 1827period
Parismentioned
“In 1827, Ippolito Rosellini, who had first met Champollion during his 1826 stay in Florence, went to Paris for a year in order to improve his knowledge of the method of Champollion's system of decipherment.”
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1826 to 1827period
Florencementioned
“In 1827, Ippolito Rosellini, who had first met Champollion during his 1826 stay in Florence, went to Paris for a year in order to improve his knowledge of the method of Champollion's system of decipherment.”
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15 May 1826exact date
Italymentioned
“Following his successes and after several months of negotiations and talks by Jacques-Joseph while he was still in Italy, Champollion was finally appointed curator of the Egyptian collections of the Musée du Louvre in a decree of Charles…”
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1828year
Egyptmentioned
“Champollion probably coined this term, replacing his phrase "signs of the type", while in Egypt, as it had not appeared in the 1828 edition of the Précis.”
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21 July 1828exact date
Toulonmentioned
“On 21 July 1828, the expedition boarded the ship Eglé at Toulon and set sail for Egypt and on 18 August they arrived in Alexandria.”
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21 July 1828exact date
1 January 1829exact date
1829year
1829year
1829year
September 1829month
Documented at the same place, the same year
Ferdinand RiesParis · 1807Guillaume Henri DufourParis · 1807Charles X of FranceLondon · 1814James Joseph SylvesterLondon · 1814Friedrich KalkbrennerLondon · 1814Frédéric ChopinParis · 1832Édouard ManetParis · 1832Louis AgassizParis · 1832Fromental HalévyParis · 1832Marie AntoinetteParis · 1790Mary WollstonecraftParis · 1790Edmund BurkeParis · 1790
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