Johan David Åkerblad

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Johan David Åkerblad (17631819) was a Swedish diplomat and orientalist, a student of Sacy. He took on Sacy's work in identifying proper names in the demotic script on the Rosetta Stone. One of his strategies of comparing the demotic to Coptic later became a key in Champollion's eventual decipherment of the hieroglyphic script and the Ancient Egyptian language.

Åkerblad believed that the demotic script was entirely alphabetic, and ultimately failed in the decipherment.

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