Karl Richard Lepsius
Also known as: Richard Lepsius · Carl Richard Lepsius · C. R. Lepsius · Lepsius · K. R. Lepsius
Karl Richard Lepsius was a German Egyptologist, linguist and modern archaeologist.
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Karl Richard Lepsius: Jean-François Champollion
After receiving his doctorate following his dissertation De tabulis Eugubinis in 1833, he travelled to Paris, where he attended lectures by the French classicist Jean Letronne, an early disciple of Jean-François Champollion and his work on the decipherment of the Egyptian language, visited Egyptian collections all over Europe and studied lithography and engraving.
Karl Richard Lepsius: Cracking Hieroglyphs
Decipherment efforts languished after Young and Champollion died, but in 1837 Karl Richard Lepsius pointed out that many hieroglyphs represented combinations of two or three sounds rather than one, thus correcting one of the most fundamental faults in Champollion's work.