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François Lenormant was born in Paris on January 17, 1837. His father, Charles Lenormant, distinguished as an archaeologist, numismatist and Egyptologist, was anxious - that his son should follow in his steps.
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The distinguished scholar, one of whose matoreet works is now offered toE nglL hreaders, is well fitted, both by early training and by later studies, to secure attention to whatever he may write. His father, Charles Lenormant, was an accomplished student and professor of archseology, and he himself found his native enthusiasm directed into similar channels when he was little more than a boy. At twentyone he wrote a treatise on a problem in numismatics, which received the prize from the Academic des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, in 1857, and from that time on he has devoted himself with restless zeal to investigations in many parts of the wide field of antiquities. His versatility, energy, rapidity in work and retentive memory are alike remarkable. He has been by turns traveler, excavator, essayist, decipherer, grammarian, historian, editor, instructor, and can point to productive labor in all these pursuits. After growing thoroughly miliar with classical antiquities, he was ready, when the science of A asyriology began to attract general attention, to throw himself eagerly into this new department, and soon took his place among the leading A ssyriologists. He has been always a prolific writer, and has of late years chosen most often such themes as had some connection with recent discoveries in Mesopotamia. At least two of his books have been translated into English: theM anual of the A ncietit HU iory of theE ast, 2vols. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst
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François Lenormant was born in Paris on January 17, 1837. His father, Charles Lenormant, distinguished as an archaeologist, numismatist and Egyptologist, was anxious - that his son should follow in his steps.
Charles Lenormant made his son begin Greek at the age of six, and the child responded so well to this precocious scheme of instruction, that when he was only fourteen an essay of his, on the Greek tablets found at Memphis, appeared in the Revue archeologique.
In 1856 Lenormant won the numismatic prize of the Academie des Inscriptions with an essay entitled Classification des monnaies des Lagides. In 1862 he became sub-librarian of the Institute. Lenormant returned to Greece three times during the next six years, and gave up all the time he could spare from his official work to archaeological research. These peaceful labours were rudely interrupted by the war of 1870, when Lenormant served with the army and was wounded in the siege of Paris. In 1874 he was appointed professor of archaeology at the National Library, and in the following year he collaborated with Baron de Witte in founding the Gazette arcMologique. As early as 1867 he had turned his attention to Assyrian studies; he was among the first to recognize in the cuneiform inscriptions the existence of a non-Semitic language, now known as Accadian. Most of his varied studies were directed towards tracing the origins of the two great civilizations of the ancient world, which were to be sought in Mesopotamia and on the shores of the Mediterranean. He had a perfect passion for exploration. Besides his early expeditions to Greece, he visited the south of Italy three times with this object, and it was while exploring in Calabria that he met with an accident which ended fatally in Paris on the 9th of December 1883, after a 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 forty-six.
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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 modern school.