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René Labat

1904 – 1974

French assyriologist and professor

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Lived 1904 – 1974 (aged 69). René Labat was a French assyriologist, professor, orientalist and assyriology.

René Labat (5 June 1904 – 3 April 1974) was a 20th-century French Assyriologist.

He was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 1968 to 1974 and professor at the Collège de France from 1952 to his death.

Biography Family Born in Gascony, he was the father of Florence Malbran-Labat, a philologist.

Career In 1932, he graduated from the École pratique des hautes études. The following year, and collaborated with the Cambridge Ancient History, the Fischer Weltgeschichte (in which he wrote about assyrian and neo-babylonian empires) and the Histoire générale des sciences.

Selected publications 1932: L’akkadien de Boghaz-Köi. Étude sur la langue des lettres, traités et vocabulaires akkadiens trouvés à Boghaz-Köi, 1933: Commentaires assyro-babyloniens sur les présages, 1935: Le poème babylonien de la Création, edition and translation, 1938: Le caractère religieux de la royauté assyro-babylonienne, main thesis, 1938: Hémérologies et ménologies d’Assur, complementary thesis, 1943: Un almanach babylonien, 1948: Manuel d’épigraphie akkadienne : signes, syllabaires, idéogrammes, 1951: Traité akkadien de diagnostics et pronostics médicaux, 2 volumes, 1953: La médecine babylonienne, 1954: À propos de la chirurgie babylonienne, 1957: La science antique et médiévale. Des origines à 1450, collectif, 1961: Kaštariti, Phraorte et les débuts de l'histoire mède, 1965: Un calendrier babylonien des travaux, des signes et des mois (séries iqqur ipus), 1970: Les grands textes de la pensée babylonienne, 1970: Les religions du Proche-Orient asiatique. Textes babyloniens, ougaritiques, hittites, edition and translation, 1974: Suse ville royale. 11 textes littéraires de Suse, with Dietz Otto Edzard, in Mémoires de la Délégation archéologique française en Iran, 1976: Saint Louis et l'Orient.

Other translations Code of Hammurabi, with Jean Bottéro.

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Important facts

Birth century
Occupation
Assyriologist, professor, orientalist, Assyriology
Nationality
Education
École pratique des hautes études
Employers
Collège de France, École pratique des hautes études
Awards
Bordin Prize

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Who was René Labat?

French assyriologist and professor

When was René Labat born?

René Labat was born on 5 June 1904 in Saint-Loubès.

When did René Labat die?

René Labat died on 3 April 1974 in 14th arrondissement of Paris.

What was René Labat's occupation?

René Labat was an assyriologist, professor, orientalist and assyriology.

What nationality was René Labat?

René Labat was French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: René Labat

· Wikidata: Q20789758

· DBpedia: René Labat (Assyriologist)

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