The life of J.D. Åkerblad : Egyptian decipherment and orientalism in revolutionary times /

Johan David Åkerblad (1763-1819) contributed to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Demotic and is known as a predecessor of Jean-Francois Champollion. This intellectual biography offers a new and less heroic interpretation of the first reading of the Egyptian scripts. Åkerblad, an except...

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Main Author: Thomasson, Fredrik
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013
Leiden ; Boston : c2013
Leiden ; Boston : ©2013
Leiden ; Boston : 2013
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 213
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 123
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 213
Brill's studies in intellectual history v. 213
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