Emmanuel Laroche (11 July 1914 – 16 June 1991) was a French linguist and

Hittitologist Hittitology is the study of the Hittites, an ancient Anatolian people that established an empire around Hattusa in the 2nd millennium BCE. It combines aspects of the archaeology, history, philology, and art history of the Hittite civilisation. ...

. An expert in the languages of ancient

Anatolia Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The ...

(

Indo-European The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutc ...

and

Hurrian The Hurrians (; cuneiform: ; transliteration: ''Ḫu-ur-ri''; also called Hari, Khurrites, Hourri, Churri, Hurri or Hurriter) were a people of the Bronze Age Near East. They spoke a Hurrian language and lived in Anatolia, Syria and Northern ...

), he was professor of Anatolian studies at the

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...

(1973–1985).

Main works

;Hieroglyphic writings * ''Les Hiéroglyphes hittites'' (1960, réed. 1976) ;Hittite and Louvite texte * ''Études proto-hittites'' (1947) * ''Dictionnaire de la langue louvite'' (1959) * ''Glossaire de la langue hourrite' (1976) * ''Catalogue des textes hittites'' (1971) ;History and geography of ancient Anatoly * ''Recueil d'onomastique hittite'' (1951) * ''Le Rôle des Hittites dans l'Orient ancien'' (1956) * ''Les Noms des Hittites'' (1966) ;Hittite religion * ''Recherches sur les noms des dieux hittites'' (1947) * ''Le Panthéon de Yazilikaya'', JCS 6 (1952) * ''Kubaba déesse anatolienne et le problème des origines de Cybèle '' * ''La Réforme religieuse du Roi Tudhaliya IV et sa signification politique'' (1975) ;Deciphering of the lycian language * ''La Stèle trilingue du Létôon'', second part: ''L'inscription lycienne'' (1979) * ''Dictionnaire de la langue louvite'', 1959 * ''

Catalogue des textes Hittites The corpus of texts written in the Hittite language is indexed by the ''Catalogue des Textes Hittites'' (CTH, since 1971). The catalogue is only a classification of texts; it does not give the texts. One traditionally cites texts by their numbers in ...

'', Paris 1971 * ''Glossaire De La Langue Hourrite'', 1980,

External links

Emmanuel Laroche
on data.bnf.fr * {{DEFAULTSORT:Laroche, Emmanuel People from Clamart 1914 births 1991 deaths Collège de France faculty École pratique des hautes études faculty Linguists from France Linguists of Indo-European languages French Assyriologists École Normale Supérieure alumni Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 20th-century linguists Assyriologists