science · 17 January 1837 · 187 years ago
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Born 17 Jan 1837; died 9 Dec 1883 at age 46.
French Assyriologist and numismatist who recognized, from cuneiform inscriptions, a language now known as Akkadian that proved valuable to the understanding of Mesopotamian civilization 3,000 years before the Christian era. He published his first archaeological paper at 14 and went on to become a scholar of wide achievement.
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