Family Child
Karl Ludwig Grotefend
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q57855 · wikidata
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Georg Friedrich Grotefend
1775-06-09 – 1853-12-15
Life & Legacy
Georg Friedrich Grotefend (9 June 1775 – 15 December 1853) was a German epigraphist and philologist. He is known mostly for his contributions toward the decipherment of cuneiform.
Georg Friedrich Grotefend had a son, named Carl Ludwig Grotefend, who played a key role in the decipherment of the Indian Kharoshthi script on the coinage of the Indo-Greek kings, around the same time as James Prinsep, publishing Die unbekannte Schrift der Baktrischen Münzen ("The unknown script of the Bactrian coins") in 1836.
Occupation & Career
linguist, assyriologist, classical scholar, teacher, philologist, orientalist, historian
Education
University of Göttingen; Lessing-Gymnasium
Legacy Highlights
Organizations & Memberships
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony · Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
Education & Institutions
Lessing-Gymnasium · University of Göttingen
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Sources & Provenance
- Wikidata population candidate Q57855 — wikidata View source
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