Louis Godart (born 12 August 1945) is an Italian archaeologist of Belgian origins. He is a specialist in Mycenaean archaeology and philology and holds the chair of philology at the

University of Naples Federico II The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

. He is also currently Director for the Conservation of Artistic Heritage of the Italian President.

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Godart was born in Bourseigne-Vieille. After attending middle and high school at the Collège de Bellevue in

Dinant Dinant () is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Namur Province, province of Namur, Belgium. On the shores of river Meuse, in the Ardennes, it lies south-east of Brussels, south ...

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

until 1963, he graduated in classical philology in 1967 at the

University of Louvain A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

. In 1971 he got a PhD in literature and philosophy at the

Free University of Brussels University of Brussels may refer to several institutions in Brussels, Belgium: Current institutions * Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), a French-speaking university established as a separate entity in 1970 *Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), a D ...

and, in 1977, another doctorate in arts and humanities at the

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in Paris. Godart researched on the Mycenaean

Linear B Linear B was a syllabic script used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries. The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1400 BC. It is descended from ...

tablets and, in general, on the Aegean writing. In 1982 he started the Mission site in

Minoan Archaeology The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings were from 3500BC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000BC, and then declining from 1450B ...

Apodoulou Apodoulou ( el, Αποδούλου) is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan mansion or ceremonial building. Geography Apodoulou overlooks the Libyan Sea. Altitude: 450m above sea level Archaeology Apodoulou was first excavated by Spyrido ...

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and ...

, a joint program of the University of Naples Federico II and the Greek Ministry of Culture, co-directed with Yannis Tzedakis, former Director General of Antiquities of Greece. He has organized several national and international conferences in archaeological and philological on protohistoric Mediterranean, including the Micenologia II International Congress in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

in 1992. He is the author of 29 books and 141 scientific articles, published in Italy and abroad on topics relating to the civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially the

Aegean civilization Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea. There are three distinct but communicating and interacting geographic regions covered by this term: Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland ...

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Biography at the University of Naples
{{DEFAULTSORT:Godart, Louis 1945 births Living people Italian archaeologists Belgian archaeologists People from Namur (province)

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