Jean-Jacques Barthélemy

For the French actor of the same name, see Jean Angelo.

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Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
Born(1716-01-20)20 January 1716
Cassis, Provence, France
Died30 April 1795(1795-04-30) (aged 79)
Paris, France
Known forDecipherment of the Palmyrene alphabet and the Phoenician alphabet
Author of Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece
Member of the Académie française
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Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (20 January 1716 – 30 April 1795) was a French Catholic clergyman, archaeologist, numismatologist and 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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