had now been laid for the interpretation of the Persian inscriptions. However, Grotefend misconstrued several important characters. Significant work remained to be done to complete the decipherment. Building on Grotefend's insights, this task was performed by Eugène Burnouf, Christian Lassen and Sir Henry Rawlinson. Later instances A decipherment method broadly similar to that of Grotefend was used by CNRS researcher François Desset in 2018-2020, to advance the decipherment of Linear Elamite. See also Friedrich August Grotefend, German philologist and relative of Georg Friedrich Champollion Notes References External links 1775 births 1853 deaths University of Göttingen alumni German philologists Cuneiform Old Persian language