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Born February 18, 1827 • Berlin • Prussia
Died September 9, 1894 (aged 67) • Charlottenburg • Germany
Subjects Of Study demotic script
Christoph von Dohnányi
German conductor
Richard Lepsius.
Richard Lepsius
German Egyptologist
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Zahi Hawass and Barack Obama
Zahi Hawass
Egyptian archaeologist and official
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Christian Jacq
French Egyptologist and writer
Gaston Maspero
French Egyptologist
James Henry Breasted
James Henry Breasted
American archaeologist
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Barthel Beham
German engraver
Johann Georg Cotta
German publisher [1631–1692]
Friedrich William Heinrich Benda
German musician
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian
August Boeckh
German scholar
Bernard II
German duke
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
Konrad Zuse
German engineer
Robert Wiene
German film director