Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy was born on January 20, 1716. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
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.