Léon Heuzey

Léon Alexandre Heuzey (* 1831, † 1922) was a French archaeologist.

Léon Heuzey was curator of the Oriental collection of the Louvre in Paris. In the summer of 1878 he was the French consul in Iraq Ernest de Sarzec, who at that time in Tello (h ) ( Girsu ) initiated excavations made ​​aware of its findings. He then started in the subsequent period to conduct the excavations themselves and realized how important were these findings for Assyriology.

Already began in 1861 under the direction Heuzeys the excavation in the Macedonian city Aegae (now Vergina ), which continues today.

Works

• Archaeological Mission de Macédoine ( with H. Daumet ), Paris 1876
• Les figurines antiques de terre cuite du Musée du Louvre gravée par Achille Jacquet, Paris 1883
• Les origines orientales de l'art. Recueil de mémoires archéologiques et de monuments Figures, Paris 1891-1915

• Classical archaeologist
• Near Eastern archaeologist
• Researcher of the Louvre
• Frenchman
• Born in 1831
• Died in 1922
• Man