Who was the character who managed to uncover the Mesopotamian script?

Who was the character who managed to uncover the Mesopotamian script?

1. George Friedrich Grotefend, a Greek teacher and linguist at an academy in Germany. In 1802 he claimed to be able to read cuneiform, but his efforts only succeeded in recognizing 10 characters.

George Friedrich Grotefend

       

2. In 1857 Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, a young British officer serving in Persian Kurdistan managed to read the inscription written on the Behistun stone in the Zagros Mountains in Persian, Elamic and Akkadian versions. However, the provisional guess as to who created the cuneiform script is still a Semitic nation.

Henry C. RAWLINSON

3. Jules Oppert, a French linguist, announced in 1869 that he had found a nation that used cuneiform, not Semitic. He has translated an inscription showing that these people lived in Sumer, before the Akkadians, and that they invented the cuneiform script which was later used by the Semites who conquered it.

Jules Oppert