Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 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.
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![The duc de Choiseul, together with Madame de Brionne and Abbé Barthélemy (right), circa 1775.[4]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Jacques_Wilbaut_%28French%29_-_Presumed_Portrait_of_the_Duc_de_Choiseul_and_Two_Companions_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1280px-Jacques_Wilbaut_%28French%29_-_Presumed_Portrait_of_the_Duc_de_Choiseul_and_Two_Companions_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
The duc de Choiseul, together with Madame de Brionne and Abbé Barthélemy (right), circa 1775.[4]![{{cite book |last1=Caylus |first1=Anne Claude de |title=Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques et romaines. Tome 1 |date=1752 |pages=65-76, Plate XXVI |url=https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/viewer/5655/?offset=1#page=139&viewer=picture&o=download&n=0&q=}}{{cite journal |author-link=François de Callataÿ |last1=Callataÿ |first1=François de |title=Le Comte de Caylus et l'étude des monnaies antiques |journal=Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |date=2010 |volume=154 |issue=3 |pages=1341 |doi=10.3406/crai.2010.93021 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_2010_num_154_3_93021}}{{cite journal |last1=Fumaroli |first1=Marc |title=Le comte de Caylus et l'Académie des Inscriptions |journal=Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |date=1995 |volume=139 |issue=1 |pages=234-235 |doi=10.3406/crai.1995.15460 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1995_num_139_1_15460}}{{cite journal |last1=David |first1=Madeleine-V. |title=En marge du mémoire de l'abbé Barthélemy sur les inscriptions phéniciennes (1758) |journal=Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |date=1961 |volume=105 |issue=1 |pages=31 |doi=10.3406/crai.1961.11254 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1961_num_105_1_11254}} This insight [[:File:Divine Legation Caylus.png|was published in English]] in ''[[The Divine Legation of Moses]]'' by [[William Warburton]] in 1765.{{cite book |last1=Warburton |first1=William |title=The Divine legation of Moses demonstrated ... |date=1765 |publisher=London : Printed for A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson |pages=100-115 |url=https://archive.org/details/divinelegationof176503warb/page/100/mode/2up}}"}},"i":0}}]}">Anne Claude de Caylus and Jean-Jacques Barthélemy identified that non-hieroglyphic cursive Egyptian scripts seemed to consist in alphabetical letters graphically derived from hieroglyphs, in Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, 1752.[7][8][9][10] This insight was published in English in The Divine Legation of Moses by William Warburton in 1765.[11]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Caylus_and_Egyptian_script.jpg/500px-Caylus_and_Egyptian_script.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
{{cite book |last1=Caylus |first1=Anne Claude de |title=Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques et romaines. Tome 1 |date=1752 |pages=65-76, Plate XXVI |url=https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/viewer/5655/?offset=1#page=139&viewer=picture&o=download&n=0&q=}}{{cite journal |author-link=François de Callataÿ |last1=Callataÿ |first1=François de |title=Le Comte de Caylus et l'étude des monnaies antiques |journal=Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |date=2010 |volume=154 |issue=3 |pages=1341 |doi=10.3406/crai.2010.93021 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_2010_num_154_3_93021}}{{cite journal |last1=Fumaroli |first1=Marc |title=Le comte de Caylus et l'Académie des Inscriptions |journal=Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |date=1995 |volume=139 |issue=1 |pages=234-235 |doi=10.3406/crai.1995.15460 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1995_num_139_1_15460}}{{cite journal |last1=David |first1=Madeleine-V. |title=En marge du mémoire de l'abbé Barthélemy sur les inscriptions phéniciennes (1758) |journal=Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |date=1961 |volume=105 |issue=1 |pages=31 |doi=10.3406/crai.1961.11254 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1961_num_105_1_11254}} This insight [[:File:Divine Legation Caylus.png|was published in English]] in ''[[The Divine Legation of Moses]]'' by [[William Warburton]] in 1765.{{cite book |last1=Warburton |first1=William |title=The Divine legation of Moses demonstrated ... |date=1765 |publisher=London : Printed for A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson |pages=100-115 |url=https://archive.org/details/divinelegationof176503warb/page/100/mode/2up}}"}},"i":0}}]}">Anne Claude de Caylus and Jean-Jacques Barthélemy identified that non-hieroglyphic cursive Egyptian scripts seemed to consist in alphabetical letters graphically derived from hieroglyphs, in Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, 1752.[7][8][9][10] This insight was published in English in The Divine Legation of Moses by William Warburton in 1765.[11]
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Lived 1716 to 1795 · aged 79
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