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Jean-Jacques Barthélemy

1716 - 1795

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Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (20 January 1716 – 30 April 1795) was a French Catholic clergyman, archaeologist, numismatologist and scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. He deciphered the Palmyrene alphabet in 1754 and the Phoenician alphabet in 1758. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Jacques Barthélemy is the 2,456th most popular writer (down from 2,344th in 2019), the 2,695th most popular biography from France (down from 2,620th in 2019) and the 341st most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy ranks 2,456 out of 7,302. Before him are Lytton Strachey, Samael Aun Weor, Maria Skobtsova, Pavel Kohout, Tang Xianzu, and James M. Cain. After him are William Auld, Alex Haley, Caesarius of Heisterbach, Apollonius Dyscolus, Dares Phrygius, and Jules Supervielle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy ranks 13. Before him are Gaspar de Portolá, Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Joseph-Marie Vien, Yuan Mei, Antonio de Ulloa, and Thomas Gray. After him are Luis Egidio Meléndez, Eugenios Voulgaris, Pehr Kalm, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, and Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz. Among people deceased in 1795, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy ranks 22. Before him are John Sullivan, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria, Antonio de Ulloa, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, and James Boswell. After him are Michel Corrette, Francisco Bayeu y Subías, Grigory Shelikhov, Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, and Ranieri de' Calzabigi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy ranks 2,695 out of 6,770. Before him are Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (1740), Jacques Loussier (1934), Michel Constantin (1924), Charles de Bourbon (1523), Michel Petrucciani (1962), and Léon Charles Thévenin (1857). After him are Claude Zidi (1934), Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (1762), Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1629), Auguste Chevalier (1873), Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (1328), and Christophe Pierre (1946).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy ranks 341. Before him are Renaud Camus (1946), Marius Aventicensis (532), Paschasius Radbertus (792), Jacques Roubaud (1932), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), and Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829). After him are Jean-François Regnard (1655), Albert Robida (1848), Jules Guesde (1845), Philippe Quinault (1635), Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674), and Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746).

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