"Grotefend" redirects here. For the lesser known relative, see Friedrich August Grotefend.
Georg Friedrich Grotefend
Born
(1775-06-09)9 June 1775
Died
15 December 1853(1853-12-15) (aged 78)
Nationality
German
Occupation(s)
Epigraphist, philologist
Georg Friedrich Grotefend (9 June 1775 – 15 December 1853) was a German epigraphist and philologist. He is known mostly for his contributions toward the decipherment of cuneiform.
Georg Friedrich Grotefend had a son, named Carl Ludwig Grotefend, who played a key role in the decipherment of the Indian Kharoshthi script on the coinage of the Indo-Greek kings, around the same time as James Prinsep, publishing Die unbekannte Schrift der Baktrischen Münzen ("The unknown script of the Bactrian coins") in 1836.[1]
^Salomon, Richard (1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-19-535666-3.
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