Jacques-Joseph Champollion
Jacques-Joseph Champollion , called Champollion-Figeac (born October 5, 1778 in Figeac , † May 9, 1867 in Fontainebleau ) was a French archaeologist and librarian and the older brother of the Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion . After his untimely death, he published many of his works, to which he himself had contributed.
Life
The Champollion brothers came from humble backgrounds. Her father Jacques Champollion (1744-1821) moved in 1770 from the hamlet of La Roche in the French Alps to Figeac in the Lot department , where his eight children were born. Since the family could not finance schooling, Jacques-Joseph became self-taught and taught his brother, who was twelve years his junior, to read and write.
In 1812 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1816 he became professor of ancient Greek and librarian at the University of Grenoble , but lost this position because of his support for Napoleon in the Hundred Days . From 1828 to 1848 he worked in the French National Library in Paris and became a professor of palaeography at the École des chartes . In the revolution of 1848 he again lost this position, but in 1849 he became librarian at Fontainebleau Palace . He wrote several philological and historical works and published numerous works by his younger brother. He died in Fontainebleau and was buried in the local cemetery.
His son Aimé-Louis (1812-1894) also worked in the national library and wrote a biographical treatise on his family under the title Les Deux Champollion (Grenoble, 1887).
Works
- Antiquités de Grenoble ou Histoire ancienne de cette ville d'après ses monuments , 1807
- Nouvelles recherches sur les patois ou idiomes vulgaires de la France et en particulier sur ceux du département de l'Isère , 1809
- Annales des Lagides , 1819
- Nouvelles recherches sur la ville gauloise d ' Uxellodunum , assiégée et prize par J. César, rédigées d'après l'examen des lieux et des fouilles récentes, et accompagnées de plans topographiques et de planches d'antiquités, imprimerie royale , Paris 1820
- L'Égypte ancienne , 1839
literature
- Encyclopaedia Britannica , Eleventh Edition.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 57.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Champollion, Jacques-Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Champollion-Figeac |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French archaeologist and librarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1778 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Figeac |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1867 |
| Place of death | Fontainebleau |