Georg Friedrich Grotefend (9 June 1775 – 15 December 1853) was a German epigraphist and philologist. He is known mostly for his contributions toward the...

Friedrich August Grotefend (12 December 1798 in Ilefeld to 28 February 1836 in Göttingen) was a German philologist. Grotefend was a relative of Georg...

take place until the beginning of the 19th century, initiated by Georg Friedrich Grotefend in his study of Old Persian cuneiform. He was followed by Antoine-Jean...

systems. The first was Old Persian, which was deciphered in 1802 by Georg Friedrich Grotefend. The second, Babylonian cuneiform, was deciphered shortly after...

transcriptions were used by Georg Friedrich Grotefend and others in their efforts to decipher the Old Persian cuneiform script. Grotefend had deciphered ten of...

philology at the University of Göttingen, and in 1803 succeeded Georg Friedrich Grotefend as an instructor of Greek and Latin at the gymnasium in Göttingen...

isolated signs could be identified, and were presented in 1802 by Georg Friedrich Grotefend. By this time it was already evident that Akkadian was a Semitic...

November 15 – Queen Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819) December 15 – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist, philologist (b. 1775) December 23 – Juliette...

see para 5. "Grotefend, Georg Friedrich" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 620–621. "Hausmann, Johann Friedrich Ludwig" . Encyclopædia...

philologist Georg Friedrich Grotefend, who made the first successful attempts at deciphering Old Persian cuneiform. It is thought that Carl Ludwig Grotefend independently...

Lyceums der Königlichen Residenz-Stadt Hannover während des ... by Georg Friedrich Grotefend Most widely held works by F. E Ruhkopf WorldCat Identities v t...

Persian cuneiform. Saint-Martin, based on the earlier work of Georg Friedrich Grotefend, believed the cuneiform text to bear the name of Xerxes I, a king...

Jean-François Champollion Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Decipherment) 1822 Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Eugène Burnouf, and Henry Rawlinson Old Persian Cuneiform (Decipherment)...

systems. The first was Old Persian, which was deciphered in 1802 by Georg Friedrich Grotefend. The second, Babylonian cuneiform, was deciphered shortly after...

written in Old Persian. It was first deciphered by Georg Friedrich Grotefend (based on work of Friedrich Munter) and Henry Creswicke Rawlinson between 1802...

research and writings of Georg Friedrich Grotefend. Iran studies programs in Germany are at Freie Universität Berlin and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen...

1822.) In 1838 Henry Rawlinson, building on the 1802 work of Georg Friedrich Grotefend, was able to decipher the Old Persian section of the Behistun...

significant number of characters could be found, was initiated by Georg Friedrich Grotefend. He was the initial decipherer of Old Persian cuneiform. He was...

"king" (𐎧𐏁𐎠𐎹𐎰𐎡𐎹, now known to be pronounced xšāyaθiya). Georg Friedrich Grotefend extended this work by realizing a king's name is often followed...

of Assyriology. His transcriptions were especially useful to Georg Friedrich Grotefend, who made the first correct decipherments of Old Persian cuneiform:...

Inscription in 1847 by Sir Henry Rawlinson, building on earlier work by Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Eugène Burnouf, and Christian Lassen. The magnitude of the influence...

preliminary inferences had already been made by other scholars such as Georg Friedrich Grotefend about these Persian inscriptions. In 1836, Eugène Burnouf discovered...

customs administrator Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer (1685–1746), forensics physician and botanist Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775–1853), epigraphist and...

Grauert — History — (Student) Jonas Grethlein, German classicist Georg Friedrich Grotefend — Philology — Decipherer of Cuneiform script Jacob Grimm — Linguistics...

Henry Boehm, American clergyman and pastor (d. 1875) June 9 – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist and philologist (d. 1853) June 10 – James...

specializing in the Mesopotamian world and cuneiform script. Georg Friedrich Grotefend (German, 1775–1853), epigraphist and philologist known for his...

schools), later revised in 1823, by Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775-1853). He was the brother of historian Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck (1741–1810). Karl...

(𐎧𐏁𐎠𐎹𐎰𐎡𐎹, now known to be pronounced xšāyaθiya[check spelling]). Georg Friedrich Grotefend extended this work by realizing a king's name is often followed...

April – Ludwig Tieck, German writer (born 1773) 15 December – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist and philologist (born 1775) Undated – Meta...

Lessing-Gymnasium include: Georg Philipp Telemann, Baroque composer Gustav Koerner, German-American politician Georg Friedrich Grotefend Peter Stein Karl Schwarzschild...