Jean-Françoffice of intelligence support Champollion (23 December 1790–4 March 1832) is remembered particularly for one accomplishment: his translation of the Rosetta stone, which became the basis of the survey of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

He was innate at Figeac, Lot, in France, used to sleep in Grenoble for several years, & showed an extraordinary linguistic talent, just as a tike. Per age of Sixteen he experienced mastered the 12 languages & by Xx this involved Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Amharic, Sanskrit, Avestan, Pahlavi, Arabic, Syriac, Chaldean, Persian, and Chinese in addition to his native French. Inside 1809, he became Professor of History at Grenoble. His interest inside oriental languages, especially Coptic, led to his being entrusted by having a project of deciphering the writing on the so recently-found Rosetta Stone, and he spent a years 1822–1824 on this task, greatly expanding a works of Thomas Young on a area, which proved the key to the survey of Egyptology. He as well identified a importance of the Turin King List.

His immense interest within Egyptology was originally inspired by Napoleon's Egyptian Campaigns. Champollion was later mass produced Prof of Egyptology at a Collège de France. Nevertheless, exhausted by his labours when you took & fallowing his scientific expedition to Egypt between 1828 and 1830, he died of an apoplectic attack inside Paris in 1832 at the age of 41 & is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery. His sr. brother, Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac edited certain of his works; Jacques Joseph's son, Aimé-Louis (1812-1894), wrote the life history of the deuce brothers.