Joseph Halévy

Joseph Halévy (* December 15, 1827 in Edirne, † February 7, 1917 in Paris) was a French orientalist and traveler Africa.

Joseph Halévy visited in 1868 the northern Abyssinia, then conducted research on behalf of the Académie française from 1869 to 1870 to Yemen after Sabean inscriptions, of which he brought home 683, in part (550 inscriptions ) drafted ( the Minean ) in a previously unknown sister language to Sabean. From Hodeida he went out of Hayim Ḥabshush to Sana'a, Marib ( Saba ) and from there north through previously uncharted territory to Bled Nedschran (in today's Saudi Arabia since 1934 ), slightly below 18 ° north latitude, so that his trip is very significant also in geographical and ethnographic point of view.

Halévy was a professor at the University of Paris. Noteworthy is his position in Assyriology, where he rejected the view that the Akkadians were an ancient Asian culture people.

Writings

• Rapport sur ​​une mission Archaeological dans le Yemen. (Paris 1872)
• Essai sur la langue Agaou, le dialect of Falachas. (Paris 1873)
• Voyage au Nedjrân (1873 )
• Études berbères. (1873 )
• Mélanges d' epigraphy et d' archéologie semitiques '.' (1874 )
• Études sabéennes. (1875 )
• Études sur la Syllabaire cuneiform. (1876 )
• Recherches critiques sur l' origine de la civilization babylonienne. (1877 )
• Essai sur les inscriptions you Safa. (1882 )
• Mélanges de critique et d' histoire relatifs aux peuples semitiques. (1883 )
• Introduction au déchiffrement the inscriptions pseudo- hittites. 1893
• Le et l' histoire sumérisme babylonienne. 1901

Work in English and Judeo - Arabic

• Travels to Yemen: An Account of Joseph Halévy 's journey to Najran in the year 1870 / Written in San ʾ ani Arabic by his guide Hayim Ḥabshush ( died 1899). Edited with a detailed summary in English and a Glossary of Vernacular Words by SD Goitein, Hebrew University Press, Jerusalem 1941

• Orientalist
• Frenchman
• Born in 1827
• Died in 1917
• Man