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Julius Oppert (1825–1905)
Oppert, Julius. A celebrated French Assyriologist and Orientalist; born at Hamburg, July 9, 1825, of Jewish parents; died in 1905. An expert on the decipherment of cuneiform inscriptions, he published: ‘Assyrian Studies’ (1859–64); ‘Sanskrit Grammar’ (1859); ‘History of the Empires of Chaldea and Assyria from the Monuments’ (1866); ‘The People and Language of the Medes’ (1879); ‘Chronology of Genesis.’