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See also:LENORMANT, See also:FRANCOIS (1837–1883) , See also:French Assyriologist and archaeologist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 17th of See also:January 1837. His See also:father, See also:Charles Lenormant, distinguished as an archaeologist, numismatist and Egyptologist, was anxious that his son should follow in his steps. He made him begin See also:Greek at the See also:age of six, and the See also:child responded so well to this precocious See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of instruction, that when he was only fourteen an See also:essay of his, on the Greek tablets found at See also:Memphis, appeared in the Revue archeologique. In ' 1856 he won the numismatic See also:prize of the Academie See also:des See also:Inscriptions with an essay entitled See also:Classification des vtonnaiesdes Lagides. In 1862 he became sub-librarian of the See also:Institute. In 1859 he accompanied his father on a See also:journey of exploration to See also:Greece, during which Charles Lenormant succumbed to See also:fever at See also:Athens (24th See also:November). Lenormant returned to Greece three times during the next six years, and gave up all the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he could spare from his See also:official See also:work to archaeological See also:research. These peaceful labours were rudely interrupted by the See also:war of 1870, when Lenormant served with the See also:army and was wounded in the See also:siege of Paris. In 1874 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:archaeology at the See also:National Library, and in the following See also:year he collaborated with See also:Baron de See also:Witte in See also:founding the See also:Gazette archeologique. As See also:early as 1867 he had turned his See also:attention to See also:Assyrian studies; he was among the first to recognize in the See also:cuneiform inscriptions the existence of a non-Semitic See also:language, now known as.Accadian. Lenormant's knowledge was of encyclopaedic extent, ranging over an immense number of subjects, and at the same time thorough, though somewhat lacking perhaps in the. strict accuracy of the See also:modern school. Most of his varied studies were directed towards tracing the origins of the two See also:great civilizations of the See also:ancient See also:world, which were to be sought in See also:Mesopotamia and on the shores of the Mediterranean. He had a perfect See also:passion for exploration. Besides his early expeditions to Greece, he visited the See also:south of See also:Italy three times with this See also:object, and it was while exploring in See also:Calabria 'that. he met with an See also:accident which ended fatally in Paris on the 9th of See also:December 1883, after a See also:long illness. The amount and variety of Lenormant's work is truly amazing when it is remembered that he died at the early age of See also:forty-six. Probably the best known of his books are See also:Les Origines de l'histoire d'apres la See also:Bible, and his ancient See also:history of the See also:East and See also:account of Chaldean magic. For breadth of view, combined with extraordinary subtlety of See also:intuition, he was probably unrivalled.
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