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Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
French writer and numismatist
1716
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1795
country of citizenship: France
native language: French
language of expression: French
occupation: anthropologist, archaeologist, religious, numismatist
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society
position held: seat 19 of the Académie française
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Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (20 January 1716 – 30 April 1795) was a French scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. He deciphered the Palmyrene alphabet in 1754 and the Phoenician alphabet in 1758.
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1Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece
récit de voyage de Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
author: Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
1788