Charles Virolleaud

Charles Virolleaud

Jean Charles Gabriel Virolleaud (1879, Barbezieux, Charente – 1968) was a French archaeologist, one of the excavators of Ugarit.

References

  • Bibliography and overviews of his publications by several writers appeared in Syria: Revue d’art oriental et d’archéologie, 33 (1956).
  • Dupont-Sommer, André, “Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Charles Virolleaud”, Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres', (1969).

ObituarIes by André Parrot, “Charles Virolleaud (1879-1968)”, Syria: Revue d’art oriental et d’archéologie, 46 (1969), pp. 390-391, and by Ernst Friedrich Weidner,, “Charles Virolleaud (2. Juli 1879 bis 17. December 1968)”, Archiv für Orientforschung, 24 (1973), pp. 245-246.