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Carl Richard Lepsius (December 23, 1810 - July 10, 1884) was a German professor of Egyptology and linguist.
He was born in Naumburg on the river Saale, and studied Comparative Linguistics successively at Leipzig, Göttingen and Berlin. After receiving his doctorate following his dissertation De tabulis Eugubinis in 1833, he traveled to Paris where he worked with Jean-Francois Champollion on translating the Rosetta Stone.
He developed a Standard Alphabet for writing African Languages. It was published 1855 and a revised edition in 1863.
His Nubian Grammar contains a sketch of African peoples and a classification of African languages.
He was made Head Librarian of the Royal Library in Berlin in 1873, a position he held until his death in 1884.
See also: W. H. I. Bleek
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