Joachim Menant

Joachim Menant (16 April1820-30 August1899) was a French magistrate and orientalist.

He was born at Cherbourg. He studied law and became vice-president of the civil tribunal of Rouen in 1878, and a member of the appeals court three years later. But he became best known by his studies on cuneiform inscriptions.

Among his many works on Assyriology are:

*"Recueil d'alphabets des écritures cunéiformes" (1860)
*"Exposé des éléments de la grammaire assyrienne" (1868)
*"Le Syllabaire assyrien" (2 vols., 1869-1873)
*"Les Langues perdues de la Perse et de l'Assyrie" (2 vols., 1885-1886)
*"Les Pierres gravées de la Haute-Asie" (2 vols., 1883-1886)

He also collaborated with Julius Oppert. He was admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions in 1887, and died in Paris two years later.

His daughter Delphine (b. 1850) received a prize from the Académie française for her "Les Parsis, histoire des communautés zoroastriennes de l'Inde" (1898), and was sent in 1900-1901 to British India on a scientific mission, of which she published a report in 1903.

References

*1911

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NAME=Menant, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=French linguist
DATE OF BIRTH=April 16 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH=Cherbourg
DATE OF DEATH=August 30 1899
PLACE OF DEATH=Paris