Carl Ludwig Grotefend
Carl Ludwig Grotefend was a German epigraphist, philologist and numismat. He played a key role in the decipherment of the Indian Kharoshthi script on the coinage of the Indo-Greek kings, around the same time as James Prinsep, publishing "Die unbekannte Schrift der Baktrischen Münzen" ("The unknown script of the Bactrian coins") in 1836. He was the son of the famous philogist Georg Friedrich Grotefend, who made the first successful attempts at deciphering Old Persian cuneiform.

It is thought that Carl Ludwig Grotefend independently accomplished the first decipherment of the Kharoshthi script (1836, in "Blatter fur Munzkunde", Germany) around the same time as Prinsep (1835, in the "Journal of the Asiatic society of Bengal", India), as Grotefend was "evidently not aware of the latter's article".

In 1839, he wrote "Die Münzen der griechischen, parthischen und indoskythischen Könige von Baktrien und den Ländern am Indus" ("The coins of the Greek, Parthian and Indo-Scythian kings of Bactria and the countries on the Indus").
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