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. * Decirpherment of Kharoshthi by C.L. Grotefend in Blatter fur Munzkunde in 1836. * *