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Grotefend, Georg Friedrich
 
 
(g´ôrkh fr´drkh gr´tfnt) (KEY) , 1775–1853, German archaeologist and philologist. He specialized in Latin and Italian and wrote works on the Umbrian and Oscan languages and other subjects, but his greatest achievement was deciphering inscriptions of Persian cuneiform.
 
 
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