Joachim Menant

Who was Joachim Menant?

Joachim Menant was a French magistrate and orientalist.

He was born at Cherbourg. He studied law and became vice-president of the civil tribunal of Rouen in 1878, and a member of the appeals court three years later. But he became best known by his studies on cuneiform inscriptions.

Among his many works on Assyriology are:

Recueil d'alphabets des écritures cunéiformes

Exposé des éléments de la grammaire assyrienne

Le Syllabaire assyrien

Les Langues perdues de la Perse et de l'Assyrie

Les Pierres gravées de la Haute-Asie

He also collaborated with Julius Oppert. He was admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions in 1887, and died in Paris two years later.

His daughter Delphine received a prize from the Académie française for her Les Parsis, histoire des communautés zoroastriennes de l'Inde, and was sent in 1900–1901 to British India on a scientific mission, of which she published a report in 1903.