Jean-Vincent Scheil, OP, assyriologue et traducteur passionné

• Autores: Françoise Wirth
• Localización: Antropología y traducción en la Orden de Predicadores / coord. por Antonio Bueno García, 2018, ISBN 978-3-631-75748-2, págs. 389-405
• Idioma: español
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  • Born in 1858 in Koenigsmacker, a village of the French Moselle department, Jean Scheil is 12 at the time of the Franco-Prussian war that will lead to the transfer of this part of France to Germany. Alsace and the department of Moselle went back to France after World War I, but when the man who had become Father Vincent Scheil OP died in September 1940, his country was once again threatened by Germany. Meanwhile, he had travelled extensively and had become an orientalist, famous notably because of his knowledge of cuneiform writing, and his translation of the Code of Hammurabi and numerous other inscriptions. It is most probably his belonging to the Order of Preachers that made it possible for him to become a highly qualified Assyriologist and an expert in ancient languages such as Sumerian, Akkadian and Elamite.