Grotefend, Georg Friedrich, antiquary and philologist, born at Minden, Hanover; was director of the Lyceum, Hanover; was the first to decipher the cuneiform inscriptions, a discovery which he gave to the world in 1802 (1775‒1853).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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