24 Apr 2012 - 18:00
London WC1N 2PG
FREE London Lecture: Andrew Robinson, Breaking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion
Event Info
Host: EES
Type: Education – Lecture
http://www.ees.ac.uk/events/index/117.html
Time and Place
Start Time: Tuesday, 24th April 2012, 6:30 pm
End Time: Tuesday, 24th April 2012, 7:30 pm
Location: The Egypt Exploration Society
Street: 3 Doughty Mews
City/Town: London WC1N 2PG
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Contact Details
Email: contact@ees.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7242 1880
Link: http://www.ees.ac.uk/events/index/117.html
Description
Champollion is regarded as the founder of Egyptology. His dramatic life and decipherment of the hieroglyphic script were worthy of his Romantic contemporaries such as Byron. By turns a teenage professor, a supporter of Napoleon (whom he met), an exile, a fanatical decipherer and a curator at the Louvre, he lived life to the full and drove himself into an early grave. Andrew Robinson’s latest book is Breaking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion, the first biography of Champollion in English, and he also wrote The Last Man Who Knew Everything, a life of Thomas Young, the Englishman who claimed credit for launching the decipherment, which Champollion hotly denied. From 1994 to 2006 Andrew was literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement. He is a King’s Scholar of Eton College and has also been a visiting fellow at Cambridge University.
Entry is free of charge but numbers are limited to 30 so application for places as normal is required.