| LC control no. | n 50050793 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Parrot, André, 1901-1980 |
| Associated place | Sumer Mesopotamia Mari (Extinct city) |
| Birth date | 1901-02-15 |
| Death date | 1980-08-24 |
| Place of birth | Désandans (France) |
| Place of death | Paris (France) |
| Affiliation | École archéologique française de Jérusalem Église évangélique luthérienne de France Musée du Louvre École du Louvre Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France) |
| Profession or occupation | Historian Lutheran pastor Museum director Archaeologist Professor |
| Found in | Villes enforires, 1934: title page (work is about Mesopotamia) Sumer, 1981: p. 1 (d. 1980) Bibliothèque nationale de France online catalog, January 29, 2010: (heading in authority record: Parrot, André (1901-1980); other information in his record: historian; Lutheran pastor; director of the Musée du Louvre, 1968-1972) Information from 678 converted Dec. 17, 2014 (missionary) Bibliothèque nationale de France database, November 12, 2022: (heading in authority record: Parrot, André (1901-1980); born February 15, 1901 in Désandans, Doubs, France; died August 24, 1980 in Paris; historian; Lutheran pastor; director of the Musée du Louvre, 1968-1972; professor affiliated with the École du Louvre (beginning in 1937) <https://data.bnf.fr/fr/11918661/andre_parrot/> École nationale des chartes, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS) website, November 12, 2022: (André Charles Ulrich Parrot; born February 15, 1901 in Désandans, Doubs, France; died August 24, 1980 in Paris; member (1963-1980) and president (1970) of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; author of Mari, une ville perdue (1936), Archéologie mésopotamienne, 2 vol. (1946-1953), Tello : vingt campagnes de fouilles (1877-1933) (1948). Ziggurats et tour de Babel (1949), Studia Mariana (1950), Déluge et Arche de Noé (1952), La tour de Babel (1953), Le temple de Jérusalem (1954), Mission archéologique de Mari, 1956-1968 dont : I, Le temple d'Ishtar, 1956 ; II, Le palais, 3 vol., 1958-1959 ; III, Les temples d'Ishtarat et de Ninni-Zaza, 1967 ; IV, Le trésor d'Ur, 1968 (ouvrages collectifs); Sumer (1960); Assur, (1961), Abraham et son temps (1962), Mari, capitale fabuleuse (1974), L'Orient ancien (1979), and L'aventure de l'archéologie (1979)) <https://cths.fr/an/savant.php?id=111476#> L'Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Fichiers décennaux des personnes décédées depuis 1970 website, November 12, 2022: (André Charles Ulrich Parrot; born February 15, 1901 in Desandans; died August 24, 1980) <https://www.insee.fr/fr/information/4769950> Encyclopaedia Britannica website, November 12, 2022: (André Parrot; born February 15, 1901 in Désandans, Doubs, France; died August 24, 1980 in Paris; French archaeologist; Protestant theologian; museum director; noted for having discovered the ancient Mesopotamian city of Mari (now in Syria), previously known only from references in Babylonian texts; he began excavations in 1933 at Tall al-Ḥarīrī and was able to identify it as Mari from a temple dedication. Still more exciting discoveries followed in 1935 when workers began to uncover the palace of King Zimrilim; the site revealed earlier buildings, dating from about 3500 BCE and thousands of tablets with cuneiform inscriptions of the 19th and 18th centuries BCE; he also worked on sites in Lebanon and Iraq; in 1946 he was appointed chief curator of French national museums and undertook a major reorganization of Near Eastern antiquities in the Louvre; he became general inspector of museums in 1965; and from 1968 to 1972 was the first director of the Louvre (1968-1972); member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; author of several books, most of which have been translated into English) <https://www.britannica.com/place/Mari-ancient-city-Syria> Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 124e année, N. 3, juillet/octobre 1980: pages 511-515 (André Parrot; born February 25, 1901 in Désandans, Doubs, France; died August 24, 1980; studied at the École du Louvre and the École archéologique française de Jérusalem (1926-1927); archaeologist who discovered the Mari site; author of several works including Sumer; he became affiliated with the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1963 until his death in 1980; title of essay is Allocution à l'occasion de la mort de M. André Parrot, membre de l'Académie) <https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1980_num_124_3_13755> |
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