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Yuri Knorozov

Soviet and russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999).

Born November 19th, 1922 in Kharkiv.

Died March 30th, 1999 at 76 years old in Saint Petersburg (pneumonia).

Occupations
Egyptologist, anthropologist, archaeologist, ethnographer, ethnologist, historian, linguist, mayanist, mesoamericanist
Website
Wikipedia

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Jr.