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Barthélemy

Jean-Jacques Barthélemy · French writer and numismatist (1716-1795) · 1716–1795

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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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