Arthur Amiaud
Arthur Amiaud was a French Assyriologist and philologist.
Initially a law student in Poitiers, he later devoted his energies towards philology, taking classes in Semitic languages at the École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France in Paris. While a student, he was introduced to Assyrian and Babylonian studies by way of influence from Julius Oppert. Following graduation, he became a lecturer in Syriac languages at the École des lettres d'Alger. In 1881 he returned to Paris, where he served as a lecturer at the École pratique des hautes études. In 1888 he was appointed director-adjoint of the school.
Amiaud is remembered for his research of Babylonian and Assyrian inscriptions. In his later years he dedicated himself mostly to the study of the Telloh Inscriptions. He died in Paris on 30 May 1889, age 40.
Published works
Matériaux pour le dictionnaire assyrien, 1881 – Materials for an Assyrian dictionary.La légende syriaque de saint Alexis, l'homme de Dieu, 1884 – The Syriac legend of St. Alexis, a man of God.Découvertes en Chaldée, Paris, E. Leroux, 1884-1912; – Discoveries in Chaldaea.Cyrus, roi de Perse, 1886 – Cyrus, King of Persia.Tableau comparé des écritures babylonienne et assyrienne, archaiques et modernes : avec classement des signes d'après leur forme archaique, 1887, – Comparative table of Babylonian and Assyrian writings, ancient and modern.Les nombres ordinaux en Assyrien, 1889 – Assyrian ordinal numbers.Les inscriptions de Salmanasar II : roi d'Assyrie , 1890 – Inscriptions of Shalmaneser, King of Assyria.He was the author of articles in the following publications: The Journal asiatique, the Revue Critique, the Revue d'Assyriologie, the "Babylonian and Oriental Record", and the Zeitschrift für Assyriologie.