Karl Ludwig Grotefend (1807-1874)


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Name (English): Karl Ludwig Grotefend
Short name: Karl Ludwig Grotefend
Year of birth: 1807
Year of death: 1874
Short Description: "Carl Ludwig Grotefend was a German epigraphist, philologist and numismat. He 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. He was the son of the famous philogist Georg Friedrich Grotefend, who made the first successful attempts at deciphering Old Persian cuneiform.

It is thought that Carl Ludwig Grotefend independently accomplished the first decipherment of the Kharoshthi script (1836, in Blatter fur Munzkunde, Germany) around the same time as Prinsep (1835, in the Journal of the Asiatic society of Bengal, India), as Grotefend was "evidently not aware of the latter's article"." - (en.wikipedia.org 12.08.2021)
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[Last update: 2021/08/28]