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Abstract Although Paris in the age of Oppert, with her Collège de France, École Pratique des Hautes Études, École des Langues Orientales Vivantes, École du Louvre, and Sorbonne, not to mention her Catholic and Jewish institutes; as well as her great …

Abstract In the last quarter of the 19th  century and the first years of the 20th , the destinies of two major figures in French Egyptology and Assyriology regularly crossed paths. Egyptologist Gaston Maspero (1846-1916) entered the Collège de France at a …

Abstract A 19th-century French magistrate, Joachim Ménant took an early interest in the work of Jules Oppert, before making his own original contributions to Assyriology. Born in Cherbourg on April 16, 1820, he studied law at the University of Caen before …

Abstract Born in Hamburg in 1825, Jules Oppert left his hometown at an early age for Heidelberg, then Bonn, where he studied law and oriental philosophy. In 1847, at the age of 22 , he left Germany, where his Jewish origins prevented him from pursuing the …

Abstract The British Assyriologist Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) was a Francophile, as his autobiography shows. His passive correspondence, preserved in Oxford and still largely unpublished, confirms this. It includes letters from such …

Abstract The correspondence of Jules Oppert preserved at the Institut de France does not form a single unit, but is made up of several batches of letters received by his correspondents, notably Jules Mohl (1800-1876), Félicien de Saulcy (1807-1880), …

Abstract Among the papers of Goettingen orientalist Paul de Lagarde, a considerable number of letters exchanged with Jules Oppert have been preserved. In their exchanges, which cover the period from 1875 to 1890, the two scholars, who share a certain - …

Abstract Jules Oppert's participation in the May 25, 1857 session of the Royal Asiatic Society , in the deciphering of the prism of Tiglath-phalazar I , an Assyrian document, made him one of the official decipherers of Assyrian. Like all pioneers of …

Abstract Jules Oppert's name is associated above all with the sites of Khorsabad and Babylon, due to his participation from 1851 to 1855 in the "scientific and artistic expedition to Mesopotamia and Media" led by Fulgence Fresnel. Yet the texts of Nineveh …

Abstract In 1846 Edward Hincks announced that he had made a beginning in the decipherment of Akkadian. Between 1846 and 1849 he established that many signs have more than one reading or represent more than one sound, several signs can be pronounced the …

Abstract In the autumn of 1851, when Victor Place was in charge of resuming Paul-Emile Botta's excavations in Khorsabad, the French government decided to send a major scientific expedition to Mesopotamia. Headed by Fulgence Fresnel, former French consul …