François Lenormant

François Lenormant ( born January 17, 1837 in Paris, † December 10, 1883 ibid ) was a French historian and archaeologist, also one of the main representatives of Assyriology in France.

François Lenormant, son of Charles Lenormants, made ​​himself still young by monographs on the coins of the Ptolemies (1856 ) and about the Christian origin of the Sinaitic inscriptions (1859 ) is known, traveled in 1860 Greece, where he examined the ruins of the ancient Eleusis behalf of the Government, and acted upon his return as assistant librarian of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, until he was appointed in 1874 to Charles Ernest Beules point professor of archeology at the National Library. He died on 10 December 1883 in Paris.

Writings

  • Recherches archéologiques à Eleusis (1862 )
  • La révolution de la Grèce (1862 )
  • Essai sur l' Organisation politique et économique de la monnaie dans l' antiquité (1863 )
  • Monograph de la voie sacrée éleusinienne (1864 )
  • Chefs d'oeuvre de l'art antique " (1867-1869, 3 vols )
  • Les tableaux du musée de Naples " (1868 )

His later works often refer to the early history of Oriental nations, the award-winning of the Academy Manuel d' histoire ancienne de l' Orient ( 1868-69, 3 vols with Atlas, 9th Edition 1881 continued from Babelon, Bd. 4-6, 1885-88; German edited by M. Busch, 2nd edition, Leipz 1871-72, 3 vols ). ; also:

  • Lettres assyriologiques (1871-1879, 5 vols )
  • Essai sur la propagation de l' alphabet phénicien dans l' ancien monde (2nd edition 1875, 2 vols )
  • Le déluge et l' épopée babylonienne (1873 )
  • Les premières civilizations (1874, 2 vols, German, Jena 1875, 2 vols )
  • Les sciences occultes en Asie ( 1874-75, 2 vols, German, Jena 1878)
  • Études accadiennes (par. 1872-80 )
  • Les principes de comparaison de l' Accadien et des languestouraniennes (1876 )
  • Étude sur quelques parties of syllabaires cuneiform (1876 )
  • Les syllabaires cuneiform (1877 )
  • La monnaie dans l' antiquité ( 1878-79, 3 vols )
  • Les origines de l' histoire d'après la Bible ( 1880-84, 3 ​​vols )
  • La Grande Grèce ( 1881-84, 3 ​​vols )
  • A travers l' Apulië et la Lucanie, travel sketches (1883, 2 ​​vols )
  • Monnaies et médailles (1883 )
  • As well as numerous articles, mostly from the field of Assyriology, in magazines, such as Babylonia and Assyria about the gods (in the " Revue de France" 1877), among others
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