Joachim Menant
Joachim Menant (spr.ang), (born April 16, 1820 in Cherbourg , † August 30, 1899 in Paris ) was a French orientalist .
Menant lived as a judge in various places until he was appointed to the Council of Appeals in Rouen , and has made a name for himself especially as an Assyriologist through his work on cuneiform scripts. Of his writings we should mention:
Works (selection)
- Zoroastre (2nd edition 1857)
- Recueil d'alphabets des écritures cunéiformes (1860)
- Inscriptions assyriennes des briques de Babylone (1860)
- Éléments d'épigraphie assyrienne (2nd edition 1864)
- Inscriptions de Hammourabi (1863)
- Expose des éléments de la grammaire assyrienne (1868)
- Syllabaire assyria (1869–72, 2 vols.)
- Les Achéménides et les inscriptions de la Perse (1872)
- Lecons d'épigraphie assyrienne (1873)
- Annales des rois d'Assyrie (1874)
- Babylone et la Chaldée (1875)
- La bibliothèque du palais de Nineveh (1880)
- Manuel de la langue assyrienne (1880)
- Pierres: gravées de la haute Asie (1883–86, 2 vols.)
- Les langues perdues de la Perse et de l'Assyrie (1885–86)
- Ninive et Babylone (1887)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menant, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cherbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1899 |
| Place of death | Paris |