François Thureau-Dangin

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François Thureau-Dangin (3 January 1872 in

epigrapher. He played a major role in deciphering of the Sumerian and Akkadian
languages.

François Thureau-Dangin (1872–1944)

He studied under Julius Oppert in Paris, and from 1895, was associated with duties performed at the Louvre, where in 1908, he was appointed assistant curator of the Oriental Antiquities department, in french the département des Antiquités orientales where he spent most of his career and whom he led from 1925 to 1928.[1] On behalf of the Louvre museum, he conducted then excavations at Arslan Tash (1927) and at Til Barsip (1929–1931).[2][3]

He was a leading expert on Babylonian cuneiform texts, and worked on a theory concerning the origins of cuneiform writing, publishing the treatise Recherches sur l'origine de l'écriture cunéiforme (1898) as a result.[3] In 1905 he published Les inscriptions de Sumer et d'Akkad. This work, containing a transcription and translation of Mesopotamian royal inscriptions from the Archaic period of Sumer to the second millennium BC., puts an end to the controversies over the origin of the cuneiform and marks a decisive stage in the deciphering of Sumerian. It will be followed in 1926 by an Accadian Syllabary (sic) and, in 1929, by Homomorphes sumériens.

In 1910, he created the Textes cunéiformes du Louvre (TCL) series and became the co-director of the Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale (RA).

Along with

Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres[5] and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.[6]

Works (selection)

Bibliography

  • Joseph W. Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba (Hrsg.): Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development. Birkhäuser, Basel u. a. 2002, , (Science networks 27).

Notes

  1. ^ Statement based on translated text from an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia.
  2. ^ Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development by Joseph W. Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba
  3. ^ a b Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia by Gwendolyn Leick
  4. ^ Akkadica.org General information about the Foundation Georges Dossin
  5. ^ "Académiciens depuis 1663". 24 April 2022.
  6. ^ "Deceased Fellows - British Academy". Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
  7. ^ Catalog Hathi Trust published works
  8. ^ WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by F Thureau-Dangin