Guillaume Cardascia

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Guillaume Cardascia (born July 31, 1914 in Siena , † September 27, 2006 ) was a French legal historian .

After attending the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris, Cardascia studied from 1932 at the law faculty of the University of Paris , among others with François Olivier Martin and André Fliniaux . During this time he first came into contact with cuneiform law and learned Sumerian and Akkadian at the École pratique des hautes études . After graduating in 1939, he took part in the Second World War as an officer. In 1946 he received his doctorate .

From 1949 he taught at the University of Saarbrücken and from 1954 at the University of Caen . From 1965 to 1983 he was Professor of Legal History at the Law Faculty of the University of Paris II . His research focus was the law of the ancient Near East .

Fonts

  • Les archives des Murasu. Une famille d'hommes d'affaires babyloniens a l'epoque perse (455-403 av. J.-C.). Paris, Imprimerie nationale 1951 (= dissertation)
  • Les lois assyriennes. Introduction, traduction, commentaire. Paris, Editions du Cerf 1969
  • Laws B. Assyria . In: Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie

literature

  • Homage to Guillaume Cardascia . Nanterre 1995 (with list of publications)
  • Sophie Démare-Lafont: Guillaume Cardascia (1914-2006) . In: Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 101, 2007, pp. 1–2 full text
personal data
SURNAME Cardascia, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Siena
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2006