3414 Champollion & Jean-François Champollion - Pere Lachaise Cemetery (Paris)
N 48° 51.591 E 002° 23.649
31U E 455562 N 5412053
Main-belt asteroid 3414 Champollion (1983 DJ) bears name of the famous French Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion. The given coordinates mark his grave, which is located in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Waymark Code: WMVDHT
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 04/05/2017
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Main-belt asteroid 3414 Champollion (1983 DJ) bears name of the famous French Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion. The given coordinates mark his grave, which is located in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Main-belt asteroid 3414 Champollion (1983 DJ) was discovered by American astronomer Edward L. G. Bowell at Anderson Mesa Station (USA) on February 19, 1983.
In Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise (Pere Lachaise Cemetery) sleep eternal dream hundreds of famous persons - one of them is French Egyptologist, a man who decipher hieroglyphs, Jean-François Champollion. His grave you can find in division 18 of the Cemetery.
Jean-François Champollion (23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832) was a French scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of egyptology. A child prodigy in philology, he gave his first public paper on the decipherment of Demotic in 1806, and already as a young man held many posts of honor in scientific circles, and spoke Coptic and Arabic fluently. During the early 19th-century French culture experienced a period of 'Egyptomania', brought on by Napoleon's discoveries in Egypt during his campaign there (1797–1801) which also brought to light the trilingual Rosetta Stone. Scholars debated the age of Egyptian civilization and the function and nature of hieroglyphic script, which language if any it recorded, and the degree to which the signs were phonetic (representing speech sounds) or ideographic (recording semantic concepts directly). Many thought that the script was only used for sacred and ritual functions, and that as such it was unlikely to be decipherable since it was tied to esoteric and philosophical ideas, and did not record historical information. The significance of Champollion's decipherment was that he showed these assumptions to be wrong, and made it possible to begin to retrieve many kinds of information recorded by the ancient Egyptians. [wiki]