Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac

Jacques -Joseph Champollion Champollion - Figeac called ( born October 5, 1778 in Figeac, † May 9, 1867 in Fontainebleau ) was a French archaeologist and librarian and the older brother of the Egyptologist Jean -François Champollion. After his early death, he published many of his works, to which he himself had contributed.

Life

The brothers Champollion came from modest circumstances. Her father Jacques Champollion (1744-1821) was 1770 drawn from the hamlet of La Roche in the French Alps to Figeac in the Lot department, where his eight children were born. Since the family could not fund education, was Jacques -Joseph autodidact and brought his younger brother to twelve years reading and writing at.

In 1816 he became professor of Greek and librarian at the University of Grenoble, but lost this position because of his support of Napoleon in the Hundred days. From 1828 to 1848 he worked at the French National Library in Paris, and was professor of paleography at the École des Chartes. In the revolution of 1848 he lost this position again, but in 1849 a librarian at the Fontainebleau Castle. He wrote several philological and historical works and has published numerous works of his younger brother. He died at Fontainebleau and was buried in the local cemetery.

His son Aimé -Louis (1812-1894) also worked in the National Library, and wrote a biographical essay about his family under the title Les Deux Champollion (Grenoble, 1887).

Works

• Antiques de Grenoble ou Histoire ancienne de cette ville d'après ses monuments, 1807
• Nouvelles recherches sur les patois ou idiomes vulgaires de la France et en particulier sur ceux du département de l' Isère, 1809
• Annales des Lagides, 1819
• Nouvelles recherches sur la ville d' gauloise Uxellodunum, assiégée et prize par J. César, rédigées d'après l' examen des lieux et des fouilles récentes, et accompagnées de plan topographiques et de planches d' antiquités, imprimerie royale, Paris 1820
• L' Égypte ancienne, 1839