Daniel Schlumberger

Daniel Schlumberger ( born December 19, 1905 in Mulhouse ( Alsace ); † October 21, 1972 in Princeton ( New Jersey)) was a French archaeologist, who specialized particularly in the Middle East and here in the centuries after the arrival of Alexander the Great.

Schlumberger studied in Strasbourg and Paris. Between 1929 and 1940 he worked for the Service of Antiquities du Haut- Commisariat de la France au Levant, especially in Syria and undermined the fortress of Qasr -al- Khayr al- Gharbi (717 built ) from. In 1945, he went to Kabul where he was in succession by Joseph Hackin to 1963 Director of the Delegation Archéologique Française in Afghanistan. Here he discovered the Greek city of Ai Khanoum. From 1952 to 1966 he dug the Kushan temple at Surkh Kotal from. Since 1955, he additionally held a Professorur at the University of Strasbourg. In 1969 he went as a successor of Henri Seyrig as director of the Institut français d' archéologie you Proche -Orient in Beirut. He died in 1972 during a stay at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Publications (selection)

• Les Fouilles de Qasr el- Heir el- Gharbi, Paris 1939
• The Hellenized Orient. The Greek and nachgriechische art outside of the Mediterranean region. Holle Verlag, Baden -Baden 1969 ( paperback edition 1980, ISBN 3873552027 ).
• Marc Le Berre and Gérard Fussman: Surkh Kotal s Bactriane. I Les temples, Memoires de la Delegation Archéologique de la Française en Afghanistan 25, Paris 1983