Jean Bottéro
Jean Bottéro (30 August 1914 – 15 December 2007) was a French historian born in Vallauris. He was a major Assyriologist and a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East. He died in Gif-sur-Yvette.
Biography
He participated with other colleagues committed to the left (Elena Cassin, Maxime Rodinson, Maurice Godelier, Charles Malamoud, André-Georges Haudricourt, Jean-Paul Brisson, Jean Yoyotte) in a Marxist think tank organised by Jean-Pierre Vernant. This group took on an institutional form with the creation, in 1964, of the Centre des recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes, which later became the Centre Louis Gernet, focusing more on the study of ancient Greece.[1]
Between 1965 and 1967, together with
Ancient East.[2]
Works
- Collab. with Marie-Joseph Stève, ISBN 9782070395705.
- Babylone : À l'aube de notre culture, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 230), série Histoire. Paris: Gallimard, 1994. ISBN 9782070532551.
- Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece, Jean Bottéro, ISBN 978-0226067155.
- The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia, Jean Bottéro, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. U of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0226067353.
- Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia, Jean Bottéro, André Finet, Bertrand Lafont, Georges Roux, translated by Antonia Nevill. ISBN 978-0801868641.
- Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia, Jean Bottéro, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. U of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0226067179
- Birth of God: The Bible and the Historian, Jean Bottéro, translated by ISBN 978-0271040301.
References
- ^ "Vernant Jean-Pierre". www.ex-pcf.com. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
- ISSN 0066-6440.
External links
- Jean Bottero on data.bnf.fr
- Obituary in Le Monde (in French)
- Awilum.com » In Memoriam, Jean Bottéro 1914-2007