André Charles Ulrich Parrot (15 February 1901 – 24 August 1980) was a French

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

specializing in the ancient Near East. He led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, and is best known for his work at Mari, Syria, where he led important excavations from 1933 to 1975.

Biography

Parrot was born in 1901 in

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in the French

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of Doubs. He was appointed chief curator of the National Museums in 1946, and became director of the Louvre from 1958 to 1962. He was a Commander of the Legion of Honour and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. He married his second wife

Marie-Louise Girod Marie-Louise Henriette Girod-Parrot (12 October 1915 – 29 August 2014) was a French organist and composer. She studied organ with Henriette Puig-Roget and Marcel Dupré at the Paris Conservatory.The American Organist 1994 -- Volume 28, Issues 7 ...

in 1960, and died in Paris in 1980. One of his students at the École du Louvre was Denise Cocquerillat. When he was mobilised in 1940, he was replaced as a teacher at the École du Louvre by Marguerite Rutten.

Bibliography

* ''Mari, a lost city'' (1936) * ''Mesopotamian Archaeology'' (1946–1953) * ''The Temple of Jerusalem'' (1957) * ''Sumer'' (1960) * ''Assur'' (1961) * ''Abraham and His Times'' (1962, Oxford UP) * ''The Treasure of Ur'' (1968) * ''The Art of Sumer'' (1970) * ''The excavations of Mari, 18th and 19th campaigns'' (1970–1971) * ''Mari, fabulous capital'' (1974) * ''Les Phéniciens: L'expansion phénicienne; Carthage'' (Paris: Gallimard, 1975) * ''Archaeology'' (1976) () * ''Archaeological Adventure'' (1979) ()

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André Parrot
on data.bnf.fr {{DEFAULTSORT:Parrot, Andre 1901 births 1980 deaths French archaeologists French Assyriologists People from Doubs Directors of the Louvre Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres French art historians Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur 20th-century archaeologists Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy