Franz Cumont
1868
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1947
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Belgium
languages spoken, written or signed: German, Latin, Ancient Greek, French
educated at: Ghent University
occupation: curator, anthropologist, historian of religion, historian, university teacher, epigrapher, classical scholar, philologist, archaeologist
award received: Francqui Prize, Silliman Memorial Lectures
Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont (3 January 1868 in Aalst, Belgium – 20 August 1947 in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre near Brussels) was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity, notably Mithraism. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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