Joachim Menant

Joachim Menant (16 April 1820-30 August 1899) was a French magistrate and orientalist.

He was born at Cherbourg. He studied law and became vice-president of the civil tribunal of Rouen in 1878, and a member of the appeals court three years later. But he became best known by his studies on cuneiform inscriptions.

Among his many works on Assyriology are:

• Recueil d'alphabets des écritures cunéiformes (1860)
• Exposé des éléments de la grammaire assyrienne (1868)
• Le Syllabaire assyrien (2 vols., 1869-1873)
• Les Langues perdues de la Perse et de l'Assyrie (2 vols., 1885-1886)
• Les Pierres gravées de la Haute-Asie (2 vols., 1883-1886)

He also collaborated with Julius Oppert. He was admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions in 1887, and died in Paris two years later.

His daughter Delphine (b. 1850) received a prize from the Académie française for her Les Parsis, histoire des communautés zoroastriennes de l'Inde (1898), and was sent in 1900-1901 to British India on a scientific mission, of which she published a report in 1903.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.