Daniel Schlumberger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Daniel Schlumberger

French archaeologist

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1904

Place of Birth: Mulhouse, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 25-Oct-1972

Profession: university teacher, art historian, archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Daniel Théodore Schlumberger (19 December 1904 – 21 October 1972) was a French archaeologist and Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Strasbourg and later Princeton University. After having been invited by Khan Nasher in the 1960s, he conducted fieldwork at Ay Khanum in Afghanistan as Director of the Délégation Archéologique Française, discovering ruins and artifacts of the Hellenistic period.
His written works were included posthumously in The Cambridge History of Iran (1983). He was an older brother of Jean Schlumberger.