Thomas Young

[Richard Salomon]

According to P. Daniels and W. Bright, eds., The World's Writing
Systems (p. 148), Thomas Young died in 1829.

R. Salomon

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Mark F. Tritsch wrote:

> > First, regardless of whether the term Indo-European can be 
> attributed to Thomas Young, as is sometimes claimed, can anyone give 
> me the birth and death dates of Young.
> 
> Thomas Young, born 1773, major contributions in medicine, physics and 
> egyptology (the last polymath?) - unfortunately I don't know when he 
> died.
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