About Jules-Justin Sauveplane
Lived 1862 – 1928 (aged 65–66). Jules-Justin Sauveplane was a French historian, assyriologist and sanskrit scholar.
Jules-Justin Sauveplane (1862–1928) was a French priest and historian.
Biography Jules-Justin Sauveplane studied at the École des langues orientales and the École pratique des Hautes Études. A specialist of Biblical studies and of the ancient East, he published one of the first French translations of the Epic of Gilgamesh (Une épopée babylonienne, 1893), in the Revue des Religions. He later supported his thesis on this topic (Sur l'épopée babylonienne de Gilgamès), under the direction of Joseph Halévy, in front of a jury including Gaston Maspero and Jules Oppert on 2 July 1894.
Main works 1893: Une épopée babylonienne. Is-Tu-Bar - Gilgamès. 1894: Sur l'épopée babylonienne de Gilgamès.
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Who was Jules-Justin Sauveplane?
French assyriologist (1862–1928)
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Jules-Justin Sauveplane was born on 23 February 1862 in Nant.
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Jules-Justin Sauveplane died in 1928.
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Jules-Justin Sauveplane was a historian, assyriologist and sanskrit scholar.
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Jules-Justin Sauveplane was French.
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