Louis Finot (archeologist)

Louis Finot

Louis Finot (1864 in Bar-sur-Aube - 1935 in Toulon) was a French archeologist and researcher, specialising in the cultures of Southeast Asia.[1] A former director of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, his contribution to the study of Khmer history, architecture and epigraphy is widely recognised.

A bachelor of law and letters, Finot was admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes in 1886. He left it two years later with the title of palaeographer. He worked initially as a trainee then as an assistant librarian with the French National Library and undertook studies of Sanskrit. In 1898, he was named director of the archaeological mission in Indochina,[2] which would become in 1900 the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO). In 1933 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Miksic, John N.; Goh, Geok Yian; O'Connor, Sue (2011), Rethinking Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Asia: Preservation, Development, and Neglect, Anthem Press, p. 236, ISBN 0857283898.
  2. Pouillon, François (2008), Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française (in French) (2nd ed.), KARTHALA Editions, p. 390, ISBN 2845868022.
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