Athanasius Kircher
Also known as: Athanasius Kircher SJ · Athanasius Kircher, S.J. · A. Kircher · Kircher · Pere Kircher · Father Kircher · Fr. Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.
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Athanasius Kircher: Egyptian hieroglyphs
Kircher claimed to have deciphered the hieroglyphic writing of the ancient Egyptian language, but most of his assumptions and translations in the field turned out to be wrong.
Athanasius Kircher: Cracking Hieroglyphs
The first European to make sense of Coptic was a German Jesuit and polymath, Athanasius Kircher, in the mid-seventeenth century.