Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy

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Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy
Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy
Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy
Born August 3, 1844
Died February 25, 1920
Nationality France
Fields archaeology
Known for excavations at Susa

Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy (August 3, 1844 - February 25 1920) was a French archaeologist, most famous for his excavations at Susa (modern-day Shush, Iran) in 1885 and for his work, L'Art antique de la Perse.


[edit] References

  • E. and J. Gran-Aymeric, Jane Dieulafoy. Une vie d'homme, Paris, 1991.
  • R. Cagnat, Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Marcel Dieulafoy, Institut de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1921.
  • S. Reinach, "Notice biographie et bibliographie," Revue archéologique 3, 1920, pp. 363-64.