Grotefend

This derivation is at any rate more probable than that of Grotefend, who connects the word with

Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various

In 1802 Grotefend, of Hanover, put before the Academy of Göttingen the first cuneiform alphabet.

Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

"Grotefend only had the word for 'king' when he started reading Persian cuneiform."

Omnilingual H. Beam Piper 1934

Then it took thirty years before a patient German school-master by the name of Grotefend had deciphered the first four letters, the D, the A, the R and the SH, the name of the Persian King Darius.

The Story of Mankind 1921

You will understand how difficult it was to guess at the meaning of these figures but the patient labors of a German schoolmaster by the name of Grotefend was at last rewarded and thirty years after the first publication of Niebuhr's texts and three centuries after the first discovery of the wedge-formed pictures, four letters had been deciphered.

Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations Hendrik Willem Van Loon 1913

The Rock of Behistun became as famous as the Stone of Rosetta and Rawlinson shared the honors of deciphering the old nail-writing with Grotefend.

Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations Hendrik Willem Van Loon 1913

It was taken up by many dioceses, but at the end of the Middle Ages, it was still missing in many calendars (Grotefend, "Zeitrechnung", III, 137).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The language represented by these inscriptions, deciphered by Grotefend, Sir H. Rawlinson, Hincks, Oppert, and others towards the middle of the last century, is generally called Old Persian.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

We give a few examples from Grotefend, "Zeitrechnung", etc.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Thanks to these simplifications, the old Persian language had been practically restored about the beginning of the nineteenth century, through the efforts of the German Grotefend, and further advances in it were made just at this time by Renouf, in France, and by Lassen, in Germany, as well as by Rawlinson himself, who largely solved the problem of the Persian alphabet independently.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904