Georges Contenau

Georges Contenau (born April 9, 1877 in Laon , † March 22, 1964 in Paris ) was a French archaeologist , ancient orientalist and religious historian , an expert in the field of culture and religion of the civilizations of the Near and Middle East.

Life

Contenau was a professor at the University of Brussels from 1932 to 1947 . He wrote about the civilization of the Babylonians and Assyrians ( La civilization assyro-babylonienne , Paris 1922), their everyday life (1950), magic (1947) and prophecy (1940). He had also turned to the civilizations of the Phoenicians ( La civilization phénicienne , Paris 1926), Hittites and Hurrians (1948) (e.g. von Mitanni ).

From 1927 to 1946 he was chief curator for oriental antiquities at the Musée du Louvre and led several archaeological expeditions to Susa , Sidon and Nahavand . From 1946 to 1957 he was director general of the French archaeological mission in Iran.

He edited a four-volume handbook of oriental archeology ( Manuel d'archéologie orientale , 4 vol., 1927–1947) and directed the publication of the Encyclopédie d'archéologie orientale (1914–1957).

Works

Georges Contenau: This is how the Babylonians and Assyrians lived, DVA, Stuttgart 1959
Étienne Drioton , Georges Contenau, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin : The religions of the ancient Orient. Translated from the French (Les Religions de l'Orient Ancien, 1957) by Siegfried Schneider, Margarete Countess Drechsel, Peter Paul Pattloch. Aschaffenburg, Paul Pattloch Verlag, 1958

literature

Dédié à Georges Contenau. Bruxelles, 1960 (Annuaire de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire orientales et slaves Tome XV (1958–1960))

Individual evidence

^ Jean-Pierre Thiollet : Georges Contenau. In: Ders .: Je m'appelle Byblos. H & D, Paris 2005, p. 252.

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personal data
SURNAME	Contenau, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French archaeologist , ancient orientalist and historian of religion
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Laon
DATE OF DEATH	March 22, 1964
Place of death	Paris

[1] Jean-Pierre Thiollet : Georges Contenau. In: Ders .: Je m'appelle Byblos. H & D, Paris 2005, p. 252.