François Lenormant

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François Lenormant
Born17 January 1837
Paris
Died9 December 1883(1883-12-09) (aged 46)
Paris
OccupationArchaeologist

François Lenormant (17 January 1837 – 9 December 1883) was a 19th-century French

archaeologist
.

Biography

Early life

Lenormant's father,

Académie des Inscriptions with an essay entitled Classification des monnaies des Lagides and in 1862 he became sub-librarian of the Institut de France.[1]

In 1858 he visited Italy and in 1859 accompanied his father on a journey of exploration to

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and in the following year he collaborated with the Baron Jean de Witte in founding the Gazette archéologique.[1]

Accomplishments

As early as 1867 he had turned his attention to

Mediterranean. He had a perfect passion for exploration. Besides his early expeditions to Greece, he visited the south of Italy three times with this object, and it was while exploring in Calabria that he met with an accident which ended fatally in Paris after a long illness.[1]

The amount and variety of Lenormant's work is truly amazing when it is remembered that he died at the early age of forty-six. By 1881 he'd been named as a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Probably the best known of his books are Les Origines de l'histoire d'après la Bible, and his ancient history of the East and account of Chaldean magic. He also contributed articles to the Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines, though he did not live to see the dictionary's completion. For breadth of view, combined with extraordinary subtlety of intuition, he was probably unrivalled.[1]

Selected works

  • "Sur l'origine chrétienne des inscriptions sinaïtiques" in Journal Asiatique, XIII (5th ser., Paris, 1859)
  • Histoire des Massacres de Syrie en 1860 (Paris, 1861).
  • La Révolution en Grèce (Paris, 1862)
  • Essai sur l'organisation politique et économique de la monnaie dans l'antiquité (Paris, 1863)
  • Turcs et Monténégrins (Paris, 1866)
  • Comples Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences (vol. 65, p. 903, Paris, 1867)
  • Chefs-d'œuvres de l'art antique (Paris. 1867-1868) in 7 vols.
  • Histoire du peuple juif (Paris, 1869)
  • Le déluge et l'épopée babylonnienne (Paris, 1873)
  • Les premières civilisations (Paris, 1873. 2 vols.)
  • La magie chez les chaldéens et les origines accadiennes (Paris, 1874)[1]
  • La langue primitive de Chaldée et les idiomes touraniens (Paris, 1875)
  • La monnaie dans l'antiquité (Paris, 1878–1879)
  • A travers l'Apulie et la Lucanie (Paris, 1883)
  • La Genèse traduite d'après l'hébreu, avec distinction des éléments constitutifs du texte, suivi d‘un essai de restitution des textes dont s'est servi le dernier rédacteur (Paris, 1884)

Notes

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lenormant, François". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 421.
  • Catholic Encyclopedia "François Lenormant"

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