Joachim Menant
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Joachim Menant (16 April 1820-30 August 1899) was a French magistrate and orientalist
He was born at Cherbourg on the 1820. He was educated for the law, and became vice-president of the civil tribunal of Rouen in 1878, and a member of the cour d'appel three years later. But he became best known by his studies on the cuneiform inscriptions.
Among his works on the subject of Assyriology are
- Recueil d'alphabets des écritures cunéiformes (1860)
- Exposé des éléments de la grammaire assyrienne (1868)
- Le Syllabaire assyrien (2 vols., 1869-1873)
- Les Langues perdues de la Perse et de l'Assyrie (2 vols., 1885-1886)
- Les Pierres gravées de la Haute-Asie (2 vols., 1883-1886).
He also collaborated with Julius Oppert. He was admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions in 1887, and died in Paris two years later.
His daughter Delphine (b. 1850) received a prize from the Academy for her Les Parsis, histoire des communautés zoro-astriennes de l'Inde (1898), and was sent in 1900-1901 to British India on a scientific mission, of which she published a report in 1903.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Menant, Joachim |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | French linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cherbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1899 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Paris |
