Jean Nougayrol

Jean Nougayrol was a French cuneiformist[1] who studied a number of the Amarna letters.[2]

Personal life

He was born in 1900 in Toulouse, France and died in 1975.[3]

Career

Nougayrol studied Hebrew under Georges Boyer before becoming interested in cuneiform writing. He was particularly interested in Babylonian divination. While studying at the École Biblique in Jerusalem in 1935, he began to study Cylinder seals and published a book about them. He was curator of Oriental Antiquity at the Louvre from 1947 to 1960. In 1968, he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Samuel Noah Kramer - In the World of Sumer: An Autobiography published by Wayne State University Press 1988, 253 pages, ISBN 0814321216 [Retrieved 2015-07-09]
  2. ↑ W.L.Moran (edited and translated) - The Amarna Letters (p.xxiii) published by the Johns Hopkins University Press - Baltimore, London (and Brown University online) [Retrieved 2015-07-09]
  3. 1 2 Parrot, André. "Nougayrol, Jean (1900-1975)". Encyclopædia Universalis [en ligne]. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
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