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Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont ( Aalst, Belgium, 3 January 1868 – Brussels, 25 August 1947 ) 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.
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Cumont and Belgium
When another candidate was named, in 1912, Cumont resigned his positions at the University and at the Royal Museum in Brussels, left Belgium and henceforth divided his time between Paris and Rome.
Cumont and 3
* January 3: Franz Cumont
Cumont and 1868
* Franz Cumont ( 1868 – 1947 ), archeologist, historian, and philologist
Individual contributions have been made by epigraphers such as Georg Fabricius ( 1516 – 1571 ); August Wilhelm Zumpt ( 1815 – 1877 ); Theodor Mommsen ( 1817 – 1903 ); Emil Hübner ( 1834 – 1901 ); Franz Cumont ( 1868 – 1947 ); Louis Robert ( 1904 – 1985 ).
Cumont and 1947
In 1947, Franz Cumont donated his library and papers to the Academia Belgica in Rome, where they are accessible to researchers.
Cumont and was
Beck tells us that since the 1970s scholars have generally rejected Cumont, but adds that recent theories about how Zoroastrianism was during the period BC now makes some new form of Cumont's east-west transfer possible.
According to Franz Cumont, the imagery of the tauroctony was a Graeco-Roman representation of an event in Zoroastrian cosmogony described in a 9th century AD Zoroastrian text, the Bundahishn.
Cumont was a graduate of the University of Ghent ( PhD, 1887 ).
In 1936 Franz Cumont was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences.
The inscription was published in 1930 by Franz Cumont, who had been alerted to it by Rostovtseff.
Cumont and religions
* F. Cumont, Les religions orientales dans le paganisme romain, C. Bonnet, F. Van Haeperen ( eds.
Cumont and Mithraism
Cumont stated in his book that Mithraism may have survived in certain remote cantons of the Alps and Vosges into the 5th century.
Cumont and .
( This point has been understood by Mithras scholars since the days of Franz Cumont.
For the transmission of Iranian doctrine from East to West, Cumont postulated a plausible, if hypothetical, intermediary: the Magusaeans of the Iranian diaspora in Anatolia.
More problematic, and never properly addressed by Cumont or his successors, is how real-life Roman Mithraists subsequently maintained a quite complex and sophisticated Iranian theology behind an occidental facade.
Other than the images at Dura of the two ‘ magi ’ with scrolls, there is no direct and explicit evidence for the carriers of such doctrines .... Up to a point, Cumont ’ s Iranian paradigm, especially in Turcan ’ s modified form, is certainly plausible.
Firstly, because it looks again at Anatolia and Anatolians, and more importantly, because it hews back to the methodology first used by Cumont.
Cumont held that a version of the myth must have existed in which Mithras, not Ahriman, killed the bovine.
* Lieutenant général Baron de Cumont ( 09. 12. 1959-30. 06. 1963 )
Until the 1970s most scholars followed Franz Cumont in identifying Mithras with the Persian god Mithra.
* Franz Cumont, The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism, Dover Publications, 1956.
Cumont ( 1932 ) remarks their similarity to the serpents featured in Pompeian lararia ; serpents are associated with many earth-deities, and had protective, fertilising and regenerating functions, as in the cults of Aesculapius, Demeter and Ceres.
Some scholars, beginning with Franz Cumont, classify Jesus as a syncretized example of this archetype.
In 1910, Baron Edouard Descamps, the Catholic Minister of Sciences and Arts at the University of Ghent, refused to approve the faculty's unanimous recommendation of Cumont for the chair in Roman History, Cumont having been a professor there since 1906.
* F. Cumont, Lux perpetua, B. Rochette, A. Motte ( eds.
Aalst and Belgium
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Fordham, Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium
The Dender in Aalst, Belgium | Aalst and Erembodegem
A ship on the River Dender between Dendermonde and Aalst, Belgium | Aalst in 2006
Born Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon in Aalst, Belgium to a working-class family, Boon left school at age 16 to work for his father as a carriage painter.
Category: People from Aalst, Belgium
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Sabine Appelmans ( born 22 April 1972 in Aalst, East Flanders ) is a former tennis player from Belgium, and was Belgium's Fed Cup captain from 2007 until 2011.
* N9 road ( Belgium ), a road connecting Brussels and Ostend, passing Aalst, Ghent, Eeklo and Bruges ( see: nl: N9 ( België ))
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