Louis Joseph Delaporte, often known as Louis Delaporte (22 October 1874 - February 1944) was a French
archaeologist and
Hittitologist
Hittitology is the study of the Hittites, an ancient Anatolian people that established an empire around Hattusa in the 2nd millennium BCE. It combines aspects of the archaeology, history, philology, and art history of the Hittite civilisation.
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[René Dussaud]
Nécrologie: Louis Delaporte
''Syria'', Vol. 24 (1944), p.287-9
Louis Delaporte was born in
Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët. He died in prison in
Silesia
Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...
in February 1944.
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Works
* ''Mesopotamia : the Babylonian and Assyrian civilization''. Translated by V. Gordon Childe. 1925.
* ''Les Hittites'' (Paris: Renaissance du Livre, 1936).
References
French archaeologists
French Assyriologists
Hittitologists
1874 births
1924 deaths
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