Georg Friedrich Grotefend (9 June 1775 – 15 December 1853) was a German epigraphist and philologist. He is known mostly for his contributions toward the...
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Friedrich August Grotefend (12 December 1798 in Ilefeld to 28 February 1836 in Göttingen) was a German philologist. Grotefend was a relative of Georg...
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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...
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transcriptions were used by Georg Friedrich Grotefend and others in their efforts to decipher the Old Persian cuneiform script. Grotefend had deciphered ten of...
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systems. The first was Old Persian, which was deciphered in 1802 by Georg Friedrich Grotefend. The second, Babylonian cuneiform, was deciphered shortly after...
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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...
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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...
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November 15 – Queen Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819) December 15 – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist, philologist (b. 1775) December 23 – Juliette...
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see para 5. "Grotefend, Georg Friedrich" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 620–621. "Hausmann, Johann Friedrich Ludwig" . Encyclopædia...
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philologist Georg Friedrich Grotefend, who made the first successful attempts at deciphering Old Persian cuneiform. It is thought that Carl Ludwig Grotefend independently...
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Lyceums der Königlichen Residenz-Stadt Hannover während des ... by Georg Friedrich Grotefend Most widely held works by F. E Ruhkopf WorldCat Identities v t...
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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...
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Jean-François Champollion Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Decipherment) 1822 Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Eugène Burnouf, and Henry Rawlinson Old Persian Cuneiform (Decipherment)...
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systems. The first was Old Persian, which was deciphered in 1802 by Georg Friedrich Grotefend. The second, Babylonian cuneiform, was deciphered shortly after...
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written in Old Persian. It was first deciphered by Georg Friedrich Grotefend (based on work of Friedrich Munter) and Henry Creswicke Rawlinson between 1802...
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research and writings of Georg Friedrich Grotefend. Iran studies programs in Germany are at Freie Universität Berlin and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen...
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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...
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significant number of characters could be found, was initiated by Georg Friedrich Grotefend. He was the initial decipherer of Old Persian cuneiform. He was...
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"king" (𐎧𐏁𐎠𐎹𐎰𐎡𐎹, now known to be pronounced xšāyaθiya). Georg Friedrich Grotefend extended this work by realizing a king's name is often followed...
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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...
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preliminary inferences had already been made by other scholars such as Georg Friedrich Grotefend about these Persian inscriptions. In 1836, Eugène Burnouf discovered...
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of Assyriology. His transcriptions were especially useful to Georg Friedrich Grotefend, who made the first correct decipherments of Old Persian cuneiform:...
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customs administrator Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer (1685–1746), forensics physician and botanist Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775–1853), epigraphist and...
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Henry Boehm, American clergyman and pastor (d. 1875) June 9 – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist and philologist (d. 1853) June 10 – James...
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List of University of Göttingen people (redirect from List of Georg-August University of Goettingen people)
Grauert — History — (Student) Jonas Grethlein, German classicist Georg Friedrich Grotefend — Philology — Decipherer of Cuneiform script Jacob Grimm — Linguistics...
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specializing in the Mesopotamian world and cuneiform script. Georg Friedrich Grotefend (German, 1775–1853), epigraphist and philologist known for his...
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April – Ludwig Tieck, German writer (born 1773) 15 December – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist and philologist (born 1775) Undated – Meta...
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Caylus vase (section Grotefend hypothesis (1802-1815))
(𐎧𐏁𐎠𐎹𐎰𐎡𐎹, now known to be pronounced xšāyaθiya[check spelling]). Georg Friedrich Grotefend extended this work by realizing a king's name is often followed...
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Lessing-Gymnasium include: Georg Philipp Telemann, Baroque composer Gustav Koerner, German-American politician Georg Friedrich Grotefend Peter Stein Karl Schwarzschild...
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schools), later revised in 1823, by Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775-1853). He was the brother of historian Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck (1741–1810). Karl...
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