Louis Finot (1864 in

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- 1935 in

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) was a French archeologist and researcher, specialising in the cultures of

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. A former director of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, his contribution to the study of Khmer history, architecture and epigraphy is widely recognised. A bachelor of law and letters, Finot was admitted to the

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in 1886. He left it two years later with the title of

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. He worked initially as a trainee then as an assistant librarian with the

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and undertook studies of

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. In 1898, he was named director of the archaeological mission in

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, which would become in 1900 the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO). In 1933 he became a member of the

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Publications

* 1896: ''Les lapidaires indiens'', Paris, Émile Bouillon (Bibliothèque de l'École des hautes études), 280 p. * 1901: ''La religion des Chams d'après des monuments''. * 1904: ''Noté d'épigraphie indochinoise: Les inscriptions de Mi Son''. * 1916: ''Notes d'épigraphie indochinoise'', Hanoi, Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, 439 p. * 1917: « Recherches sur la littérature laotienne », BEFEO 17/5, p. 1-219. * 1921. « Archéologie indochinoise » et « L'ethnographie indochinoise », BEFEO 21/1, p. 43-166 et 167-196. * 1923: ''Les questions de Milinda, Milinda-Pañhha''. Traduit du pali avec introduction et notes, Paris, Bossard (Les classiques de l'Orient, 8). * 1925: « Lokesvara en Indochine », Paris, EFEO/Van Oest, (PEFEO 19), Études Asiatiques (1), p. 227-256, pl. 16-25. * 1925: « Inscriptions d'Angkor », BEFEO 25/3-4, p. 297-407. * 1926: (with Victor Goloubew et Henri Parmentier), Le temple d'Içvarapura (

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, Cambodge), Paris, EFEO (Mémoires archéologiques, 1), 140 p., 72 pl. * 1928: « Nouvelles inscriptions du Cambodge », BEFEO 28/1-2, p. 43-80, pl. 1-5. * 1929-32: (with V. Goloubew et

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), Le temple d' Angkor Vat, Paris, EFEO (Mémoires archéologiques, 2).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Finot, Louis French archaeologists French orientalists French librarians Historians of Southeast Asia Collège de France faculty Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres École Nationale des Chartes alumni 1864 births 1935 deaths People from Bar-sur-Aube