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André Parrot
André Charles Ulrich Parrot (15 February 1901 – 24 August 1980) was a French archaeologist, Assyriologist, curator, and Lutheran pastor who served as the first president and director of the Louvre Museum in Paris from 1968 through 1972. A specialist in the ancient Near East, Parrot led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, and is best known for his discovery of the city of Mari where he led important excavations from 1933 through 1975.
He was the husband of the composer Marie-Louise Girod.
Parrot was born on 15 February 1901 in Désandans in the French department of Doubs to a Protestant family who professed belief in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in France. His father was Charles Gustave Georges Parrot (21 July 1869 – 9 December 1953) and his mother was Sophie Eugénie Plankenhorn, of German descent (4 April 1880 – 8 February 1938). His younger brother, Jean-Emmanuel Parrot, died ten days old (21 May 1905 – 31 May 1905), scarring the family.
Charles Parrot was a pastor from Montbéliard who preached in Héricourt aside from Désandans, and his son would likewise follow in his footsteps and become a pastor himself upon attaining his theology doctorate from the Protestant Faculty of Theology and Sorbonne University in Paris.
His fascination with Biblical history and theology soon expanded into archæology and studying ancient cultures, especially those in the Near-East. Parrot studied at the École Biblique in Jerusalem from 1926 through 1927, during which he participated in the excavations of Al-Nayrab which were supervised by Augustin Georges-Barrois and Bertrand Carrière.
It was also then he studied art history at the École du Louvre, where he would later be employed from 1937 through 1968.
Following successful digs and discoveries at Al-Nayrab and, later in 1928, at Byblos, Parrot was appointed to direct excavations at Baalbek. He was appointed deputy director of excavations at Lagash in 1930; the year later, he became its formal director, serving until 1933, when he resigned to oversee the archæological expedition in Larsa. There he unearthed the Ishtar vase, which dates to the second millennium BC and is displayed at the Louvre's Department of Oriental Antiquities.
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 in 1960, and died in Paris in 1980.
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André Parrot
André Charles Ulrich Parrot (15 February 1901 – 24 August 1980) was a French archaeologist, Assyriologist, curator, and Lutheran pastor who served as the first president and director of the Louvre Museum in Paris from 1968 through 1972. A specialist in the ancient Near East, Parrot led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, and is best known for his discovery of the city of Mari where he led important excavations from 1933 through 1975.
He was the husband of the composer Marie-Louise Girod.
Parrot was born on 15 February 1901 in Désandans in the French department of Doubs to a Protestant family who professed belief in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in France. His father was Charles Gustave Georges Parrot (21 July 1869 – 9 December 1953) and his mother was Sophie Eugénie Plankenhorn, of German descent (4 April 1880 – 8 February 1938). His younger brother, Jean-Emmanuel Parrot, died ten days old (21 May 1905 – 31 May 1905), scarring the family.
Charles Parrot was a pastor from Montbéliard who preached in Héricourt aside from Désandans, and his son would likewise follow in his footsteps and become a pastor himself upon attaining his theology doctorate from the Protestant Faculty of Theology and Sorbonne University in Paris.
His fascination with Biblical history and theology soon expanded into archæology and studying ancient cultures, especially those in the Near-East. Parrot studied at the École Biblique in Jerusalem from 1926 through 1927, during which he participated in the excavations of Al-Nayrab which were supervised by Augustin Georges-Barrois and Bertrand Carrière.
It was also then he studied art history at the École du Louvre, where he would later be employed from 1937 through 1968.
Following successful digs and discoveries at Al-Nayrab and, later in 1928, at Byblos, Parrot was appointed to direct excavations at Baalbek. He was appointed deputy director of excavations at Lagash in 1930; the year later, he became its formal director, serving until 1933, when he resigned to oversee the archæological expedition in Larsa. There he unearthed the Ishtar vase, which dates to the second millennium BC and is displayed at the Louvre's Department of Oriental Antiquities.
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 in 1960, and died in Paris in 1980.
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