François Thureau-Dangin

François Thureau-Dangin (3 January 1872, Paris 24 January 1944, Paris) was a French archaeologist, assyriologist and epigrapher. He played a major role in the deciphering of Sumerian and Akkadian languages.

François Thureau-Dangin (1872–1944)

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[5] and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.[6]

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  1. Statement based on translated text from an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia.
  2. Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development by Joseph W. Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba
  3. 1 2 Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia by Gwendolyn Leick
  4. Akkadica.org General information about the Foundation Georges Dossin
  5. http://www.aibl.fr/membres/academiciens-depuis-1663/?lang=fr#T
  6. http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/dec.cfm?type=corresponding
  7. Catalog Hathi Trust published works
  8. WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by F Thureau-Dangin


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