Louis Joseph Delaporte

Louis Joseph Delaporte
Born22 October 1874 Edit this on Wikidata
Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët Edit this on Wikidata
Died24 February 1944 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 69)
Wohlau Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationArchaeologist, university teacher Edit this on Wikidata

Louis Joseph Delaporte, often known as Louis Delaporte (22 October 1874 - February 1944) was a French archaeologist and Hittitologist.[1]

Louis Delaporte was born in Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët. He died in Wohlau (Belgern-Schildau) [de] prison in Silesia in February 1944.[1]

Works

  • Mesopotamia : the Babylonian and Assyrian civilization. Translated by V. Gordon Childe. 1925.
  • Les Hittites (Paris: Renaissance du Livre, 1936).

References

  1. ^ a b René Dussaud, Nécrologie: Louis Delaporte, Syria, Vol. 24 (1944), p.287-9