Thursday, January 17, 2013

The Linguist's Calendar: January 17

Charles Hockett
January 17 
1837: Birth of François Lenormant, the first (at least in quite some time) to understand the Akkadian inscriptions from Mesopotamia.
 
1916: Charles Hockett is born.
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