Daniel Schlumberger

Daniel Schlumberger (born December 19, 1904 in Mulhouse , † October 21, 1972 in Princeton (New Jersey) ) was a French archaeologist who had specialized in the Middle East and here on the centuries after the arrival of Alexander the Great .

Life

Schlumberger studied in Strasbourg and Paris. Between 1929 and 1940 he worked for the Service des Antiquités du Haut-Commisariat de la France au Levant , mainly in Syria, and excavated the fortress of Qasr-al-Khayr-al-Gharbi (built in 717).

In 1945 he went to Kabul, where he succeeded Joseph Hackin as director of the Délégation Archéologique Française in Afghanistan until 1963 . At the invitation of Khan Gholam Serwar Nasher , he worked on the excavations of the Greek city of Ai Khanoum . From 1952 to 1966 he excavated the Kuschana temple near Surkh Kotal . From 1955 he also held a professorship at the University of Strasbourg . In 1969 he succeeded Henri Seyrig as director of the Institut français d'archéologie du Proche-Orient in Beirut . Since 1964 he was a corresponding member of the British Academy . He died in 1972 while studying at the Institute for Advanced Study .

Publications (selection)

• Les Fouilles de Qasr el-Heir el-Gharbi . Paris 1939
• The excavations at Surkh Kotal and the problem of Hellenism in Bactria and India. London 1962
• The Hellenized Orient. Greek and post-Greek art outside the Mediterranean . Holle Verlag, Baden-Baden 1969 (paperback edition 1980, ISBN 3873552027 ).
• with Marc Le Berre and Gérard Fussman: Surkh Kotal en Bactriane. I Les temples (= Mémoires de la Délégation Archéologique de la Française en Afghanistan 25). Paris 1983

literature

• Gérard Fussman: Daniel Schlumberger : In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient 60, 1973, pp. 411-422.

Web links

• Mathilde Gelin: Daniel Schlumberger , Presses de l'Ifpo - Institut français du Proche-Orient

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fellows: Daniel Schlumberger. British Academy, accessed July 28, 2020 .