Louis Finot (archaeologist) Louis Finot
Site of the original École française d'Extrême-Orient (later named Musee Louis Finot ) in Hanoi , Vietnam , now the National Museum of Vietnamese History
Louis Finot (1864 in Bar-sur-Aube - 1935 in Toulon ) was a French archeologist and researcher, specialising in the cultures of Southeast Asia .[ 1] A former director of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient , his contribution to the study of Khmer history, architecture and epigraphy is widely recognised.
A bachelor of law and letters, Finot was admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes in 1886. He left it two years later with the title of palaeographer . He worked initially as a trainee then as an assistant librarian with the French National Library and undertook studies of Sanskrit . In 1898, he was named director of the archaeological mission in Indochina ,[ 2] which would become in 1900 the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO). In 1933 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .
Publications
1896: Les lapidaires indiens , Paris, Émile Bouillon (Bibliothèque de l'École des hautes études), 280 p.
1901: La religion des Chams d'après des monuments .[ 1]
1904: Noté d'épigraphie indochinoise: Les inscriptions de Mi Son .[ 1]
1916: Notes d'épigraphie indochinoise , Hanoi, Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, 439 p.
1917: « Recherches sur la littérature laotienne », BEFEO 17/5, p. 1-219.
1921. « Archéologie indochinoise » et « L'ethnographie indochinoise », BEFEO 21/1, p. 43-166 et 167-196.
1923: Les questions de Milinda, Milinda-Pañhha . Traduit du pali avec introduction et notes, Paris, Bossard (Les classiques de l'Orient, 8).
1925: « Lokesvara en Indochine », Paris, EFEO/Van Oest, (PEFEO 19), Études Asiatiques (1), p. 227-256, pl. 16-25.
1925: « Inscriptions d'Angkor », BEFEO 25/3-4, p. 297-407.
1926: (with Victor Goloubew et Henri Parmentier ), Le temple d'Içvarapura (Banteay Srei , Cambodge), Paris, EFEO (Mémoires archéologiques, 1), 140 p., 72 pl.
1928: « Nouvelles inscriptions du Cambodge », BEFEO 28/1-2, p. 43-80, pl. 1-5.
1929-32: (with V. Goloubew et George Coedès ), Le temple d'Angkor Vat , Paris, EFEO (Mémoires archéologiques, 2).
References
^ a b c Miksic, John N. ; Goh, Geok Yian; O'Connor, Sue (2011), Rethinking Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Asia: Preservation, Development, and Neglect , Anthem Press, p. 236, ISBN 978-0857283894 .
^ Pouillon, François (2008), Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française (in French) (2nd ed.), KARTHALA Editions, p. 390, ISBN 978-2845868021 .
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