François Thureau-Dangin
François Thureau-Dangin (3 January 1872, Paris – 24 February 1944, Paris) was a French archaeologist, assyriologist and epigrapher. He played a major role in the deciphering of Sumerian and Akkadian languages.
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He studied under Julius Oppert in Paris, and from 1895, was associated with duties performed at the Louvre, where in 1908, he was appointed assistant curator of the Oriental Antiquities department.[1] On behalf of the museum, he conducted excavations at Arslan Tash (1927) and at Til Barsip (1929–1931).[2][3]
He was a leading expert on Babylonian cuneiform texts, and worked on a theory concerning the origins of cuneiform writing, publishing the treatise Recherches sur l'origine de l'écriture cunéiforme (1898) as a result.[3]
Along with Georges Dossin, he founded the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale,[4] an association of orientalists, which hosts international events. He was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres.
Works (Selection)
- Recherches sur l'origine de l'écriture cunéiforme, 1898 – Research on the origin of cuneiform writing.
- Recueil de tablettes chaldéennes, 1903 – Collection of Chaldean tablets.
- Inscriptions de Sumer et d'Akkad, 1905 – Inscriptions of Sumer and Akkad.
- Die sumerischen und akkadischen Königsinschriften, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1907 (Vorderasiatische Bibliothek, Bd. 1, Abt. 1; Neudruck 1972).
- Lettres et contrats de l'époque de la première dynastie babylonienne, 1910.
- Rituels accadiens. Leroux, Paris 1921 (Neudruck Zeller, Osnabrück 1975, ISBN 3-535-01494-8)
- Les cylindres de Goudéa découverts par Ernest de Sarzec à Tello. (54 planches), with Ernest de Sarzec, 1925 – The cylinders of Goudéa discovered by Ernest de Sarzec at Telloh.
- Le syllabaire accadien, 1926 – Akkadian syllabary.
- Textes mathématiques babyloniens. Brll, Leiden 1938 – Babylonian mathematical texts.[5][6]
Bibliography
- Joseph W. Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba (Hrsg.): Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development. Birkhäuser, Basel u. a. 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0, (Science networks 27).
Notes
- ↑ Statement based on translated text from an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia.
- ↑ Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development by Joseph W. Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia by Gwendolyn Leick
- ↑ Akkadica.org General information about the Foundation Georges Dossin
- ↑ Catalog Hathi Trust published works
- ↑ WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by F Thureau-Dangin