Georges Roux (assyriologist)

This article is about the French Assyriologist. For the French painter, see Georges Roux.

Georges Raymond Nicolas Albert Roux (November 16, 1914 - August 12, 1999) was a leading Assyriologist and author of Ancient Iraq and La Mésopotamie.^[1][2] Son of a French Army officer, Roux and his family moved to the Middle East at the age of nine where he subsequently lived for 12 years in Syria and Lebanon before returning to France in 1935.^[3] Roux was educated by Jesuits in Beirut and studied medicine at the University of Paris, where he graduated in medicine in 1941 and later studied Oriental studies at École pratique des hautes études. In 1950 Roux became a medical officer for the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) as a medical officer, spending his first two years in Qatar and the remainder in Iraq. During his time with the IPC the company produced journals on the history of Iraq which were printed in the company magazine Iraq Petroleum and The Crescent, Roux was commissioned to produce articles, and through the duration of 1956-1960, Roux produced The Story of Ancient Iraq, and a number of periodicals, including Sumer and Revue d'Assyriologie, in these Roux recognised and identifying ancient sites, largely in the Hammar Lake district of south-eastern Iraq, and corrected conclusions draw up by the British assyriologist and archeologist, Sir Leonard Woolley.^[4] After the 14 July Revolution of Iraq in 1958, Roux returned to Europe and headed the International medical department for GlaxoWellcome. In 1964, Roux published in English Ancient Iraq, a book covering the political, cultural, and socio-economic history of Mesopotamia.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

Later life

Roux retired from GlaxoWellcome in 1980 and moved to Burgundy, and later lived mostly in London with his wife Christiane, and his two sons and two daughters.^[6] He lived out the rest of his life here, passing away on August 12, 1999.

Notable works

• Ancient Iraq (1964). ISBN-10 014012523x ISBN-13 978-0140125238
• L'Amphictionie, Delphes et le temple d' Apollon au IVe siecle (1979) ISBN 978-2020050043
• La Mésopotamie (1997) ISBN 9782020236362

1. ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Georges-Roux/e/B000APA8F2/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
2. ^ http://s172518151.onlinehome.us/speakassyria/site/history-and-religion/georges-rouxs-ancient-iraq-a-book-review/
3. ^ Ancient Iraq 1965
4. ^ Ancient Iraq Third Edition 1998, Introduction p.1
5. ^ http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140125238,00.html
6. ^ ^{a b} http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/1999/sep/08/guardianobituaries1
7. ^ http://www.kavehfarrokh.com/news/professor-georges-roux-and-cyrus-the-great/
8. ^ http://www.eridu.co.uk/Author/myth_religion/sumerian.html
9. ^ http://www.ianlawton.com/mes1.htm