Louis Finot (archaeologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French archeologist and orientalist
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Place of Birth: Bar-sur-Aube, Grand Est, France
About Louis Finot (archaeologist)
- Louis Finot (1864 in Bar-sur-Aube - 1935 in Toulon) was a French archeologist and researcher, specialising in the cultures of Southeast Asia.
- 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, 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.
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