François Lenormant
François Lenormant | |
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Born | 17 January 1837 Paris |
Died | 9 December 1883 Paris | (aged 46)
Occupation | Archaeologist |
François Lenormant (17 January 1837 – 9 December 1883) was a 19th-century French
Biography
Early life
Lenormant's father,
In 1858 he visited Italy and in 1859 accompanied his father on a journey of exploration to
Accomplishments
As early as 1867 he had turned his attention to
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
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lenormant, François". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 421. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Catholic Encyclopedia "François Lenormant"