Charles Virolleaud
Jean Charles Gabriel Virolleaud (1879, Barbezieux, Charente – 1968) was a French archaeologist, one of the excavators of Ugarit. He is still renowned too for his books, and particularly for La Civilisation phénicienne (1933) and La Mythologie phénicienne (1938).[1]
References
- ↑ "Charles Virolleaud", in Je m'appelle Byblos, Jean-Pierre ThiolletJ, H & D, 2005, p. 257.
- Bibliography and overviews of his publications by several writers appeared in Syria: Revue d’art oriental et d’archéologie, 33 (1956).
- Dupont-Sommer, André, “Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Charles Virolleaud”, Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres', (1969).
ObituarIes by André Parrot, “Charles Virolleaud (1879-1968)”, Syria: Revue d’art oriental et d’archéologie, 46 (1969), pp. 390–391, and by Ernst Friedrich Weidner, “Charles Virolleaud (2. Juli 1879 bis 17. December 1968)”, Archiv für Orientforschung, 24 (1973), pp. 245–246.
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