Joachim Menant

Joachim Menant ( pron. -ang ) (* April 16, 1820 in Cherbourg, † August 30, 1899 in Paris) was a French orientalist.

Menant lived as a judge in various places until he was appointed Appellationsrat in Rouen, and has rendered outstanding as Assyriologist through his work on the cuneiform writing a name. From his writings may be mentioned:

Works (selection)

  • Zoroastre (2nd edition 1857)
  • Recueil d' alphabet of écritures cuneiform (1860 )
  • Inscriptions assyriennes of briques de Babylone (1860 )
  • Éléments d' epigraphy assyrienne (2nd edition 1864)
  • Inscriptions de Hammourabi (1863 )
  • Expose the éléments de la grammaire assyrienne (1868 )
  • Syllabaire assyrien ( 1869-72, 2 vols )
  • Les Achéménides et les inscriptions de la Perse (1872 )
  • Lecons d' epigraphy assyrienne (1873 )
  • Annales des rois d' Assyrie (1874 )
  • Babylone et la Chaldée (1875 )
  • La bibliothèque du palais de Nineveh (1880 )
  • Manuel de la langue assyrienne (1880 )
  • Pierre: Gravees de la haute Asie ( 1883-86, 2 vols )
  • Les langues de la Perse perdues et de l' Assyrie ( 1885-86 )
  • Nineveh et Babylone (1887 )

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  • Orientalist
  • Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1820
  • Died in 1899
  • Man
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