François Thureau-Dangin

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François Thureau-Dangin , born in 1872 and died in 1944, was a assyriologist, archeologist and epigraphist French which played an important role in the study of the Sumérien and of the Akkadien.

After having followed courses of assyriology, becomes in 1895 attache with the Musée of Louvre, voluntary basis, then remunerated as from 1902. He works on the inscriptions sumériennes (first known form of writing Cunéiforme) discovered by Ernest de Sarzec with Tello (old Girsu) at the end of the 19th century. In 1905, it makes appear Inscriptions of Sumer and Akkad : the work, containing a transcription and a translation of the royal inscriptions mésopotamiennes, antiquated time of Sumer until III, puts an end to the polemics on the origin of the wedge-shaped one. It will be followed into 1926 of a Syllabaire accadien (sic) and, in 1929, Homomorphes sumériens .

In 1908, he becomes preserving assistant of the department of Eastern Antiquities. In 1910, it creates the series of the wedge-shaped Textes of Louvre and becomes the deputy manager of the Revue assyriology and oriental archeology . In 1917, he is elected member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities. In 1925, it takes the direction of the department of Eastern Antiquities, but must resign three later in front of the progress of a deafness which struck it during the First World War. It turns then to the ground and after a voyage in Syria, takes the direction of the excavations of Arslan Tash and Such Ahmar (old Til Barsip).

Deportee during the Second world war, it dies shortly after its return.

Sources

“deciphering of the sumérien”, presentation carried out of from Wednesday, October 5, 2005 to Monday, January 30, 2006 at the department of Eastern Antiquities of the museum of Louvre.

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