The Life of J.D. Åkerblad: Egyptian Decipherment and Orientalism in Revolutionary Times by Fredrik Thomasson

The Life of J.D. Åkerblad: Egyptian Decipherment and Orientalism in Revolutionary Times

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History #213

Fredrik Thomasson

455 pages • first pub 2013 (view editions)

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Johan David kerblad (1763-1819) contributed to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Demotic and is known as a predecessor of Jean-Fran ois Champollion. This intellectual biography offers a new and less heroic interpretation of the first re...

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