Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac

Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (French:

He was a correspondent, living abroad, of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands from 1832 to 1851.^[2]

Works

He edited several of his brother's works, and was also author of original works on

• Antiquités de Grenoble (1807)
• Nouvelles recherches sur les patois ou idiomes vulgaires de la France (1809)
• Nouveaux éclaireissements sur la ville de Cataro, aujourd'hui Grenoble (1814)
• Annales de Lagides (1819; supplement, 1821)
• Chartes latines sur papyrus du VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne.
• Charte de Commune en langue romane, pour la ville de Gréalou en Quercy; publiée avec sa traduction française et des recherches sur quelques points de l'histoire de la langue romane en Europe et dans le Levant (1829), containing a partial edition of the Arabic–Old French glossary
• L'Egypt ancienne et moderne (1840) Based on his brother's manuscript collections.
• L'écriture démotique égyptienne (1843) Based on his brother's manuscript collections.
• Traité élémentaire d'archeologie (2d ed. 1843)
• Histoire des peuples anciens et modernes, l'Asie centrale, l'Inde et la Chine (1857)
• Monographie du palais de Fontainebleau (1859–64)
• Documents paléographiques relatifs à l'histoire des beaux-arts et des belles-lettres pendant le moyen âge (1868)

Legacy

His son Aimé-Louis (1812–1894) became his father's assistant at the Bibliothèque Nationale and, besides a number of works on historical subjects, wrote a biographical and bibliographical study of his family in Les Deux Champollion (Grenoble, 1887).^[1]

In Vif near Grenoble, The Champollion Museum is located at the former abode of Jacques Joseph.^{[citation needed]}

In popular culture

Champollion was portrayed by Stuart Bunce in the 2005 BBC docudrama Egypt.

Notes

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Champollion-Figeac, Jacques Joseph". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 832.
• New International Encyclopedia
  (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.