Jean Nougayrol
Jean Nougayrol (born February 4, 1900 in Toulouse , † January 23, 1975 ) was a French assyriologist .
life and work
Jean Nougayrol studied at the University of Toulouse and turned to the cuneiform languages under Georges Boyer . In 1935 he received a scholarship at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem , where he studied with Félix-Marie Abel and Louis-Hugues Vincent . From 1936 he studied at the Collège de France with Charles Fossey , whose successor as Directeur d'Études at the École pratique des hautes études he became in 1938. From 1947 to 1960 he was a curator at the Département des Antiquités Orientales of the Louvre .
His main research interests included research into the ancient oriental divination and the publication of cuneiform texts from Ugarit .
In 1968 he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences . In 1973 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy .
literature
- Paul Garelli : Jean Nougayrol . In: Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie orientale. Vol. 69 (1975), ISSN 0373-6032 , pp. 1-4.
Web links
- André Parrot : Jean Nougayrol. In: Encyclopaedia universalis.
- Literature by and about Jean Nougayrol in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nougayrol, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Assyriologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th February 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd January 1975 |