CHAMPOLLION. JEAN JAcorEs ( 1 TN IS67). usually called ellANIPOI LION Vice kc. A distinguished French elder brother of .1. I'. Champollion (q.v.), the founder of Egyp tology. Ile was horn at Figeae. in the Depart ment of lad. 5. 1778. After completing his collegiate studies, he was for a time libra rian and afterwards professor of (:reel: at nble. lu Ist2st he was appointed keeper of scripts in the Boyal Library in Paris. and twenty years later became librarian at Fontainebleau. Ile was at the satne time prt)fessim in the Ect,le des Charles. Ile died May 1867. in his eighty ninth year. Champollion lirst published a num ber of works on French history and philology.
Among t hem were: .1 al/qui/is de Gremdtb.
( 1507 ) Ilecherch•s les patois dill id loin es de Franc( ( I509) ; Nun r, roux tiebt ireissetnents sm. lu milk rlr Calaro, anjoarachni Go noble (1514). Then, at his brother's suggestion, he turned his attention to Egyptian arch;eology, limiting his studies, however, to the 14reek doelinirlits hearing Upon t he suhteet. 11 is _Innat, des Layides
(151 9, with I'll I 821) was •rowned by the institute. and he puldished later, utilizing his brother's manuscript cidlections, tin e/cone of modern,' ( IS-10), and L'irri)nre lique f'yy ien no (18-13 Among his other works Trail' Of:me:at/ire d'orcheo/oyie (•11 el. 18-13) ; 11 isloire dos pen ides (mei(' ns el mod( rto 8, rasic eentrolc, nil, of to ("iliac (18571; Mono graphic du palais (lc l'ontainelikau Documents pakographiqnes relati)s d rh stoire des beaux-arts e t des belles-1d res le inotlen ItYr I1S651, Chanipollion also collabo rated actively in editing the .NISS. left by his brother. Consult AiIMI Champollion. Lis dd a.r Champollion, rie ct tears cellar's (Grenoble.,