March 4, 1832
Jean-François Champollion was a French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Champollion published the first translation of the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs in 1822, showing that the Egyptian writing system was a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs.
March 22, 1832
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His
Faust has been called the greatest long poem of modern European literature. His other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, and the epistolary novel
The Sorrows of Young Werther.