Louis Finot (archaeologist)
Louis Finot was a French archeologist and researcher, specialising in the cultures of Southeast Asia. A former director of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, his contribution to the study of Khmer history, architecture and epigraphy is widely recognised.
A bachelor of law and letters, Finot was admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes in 1886. He left it two years later with the title of palaeographer. He worked initially as a trainee then as an assistant librarian with the French National Library and undertook studies of Sanskrit. In 1898, he was named director of the archaeological mission in Indochina, which would become in 1900 the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. In 1933 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.Publications
- 1896: Les lapidaires indiens, Paris, Émile Bouillon, 280 p.
- 1901: La religion des Chams d'après des monuments.
- 1904: Noté d'épigraphie indochinoise: Les inscriptions de Mi Son.
- 1916: Notes d'épigraphie indochinoise, Hanoi, Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, 439 p.
- 1917: « Recherches sur la littérature laotienne », BEFEO 17/5, p. 1-219.
- 1921. « Archéologie indochinoise » et « L'ethnographie indochinoise », BEFEO 21/1, p. 43-166 et 167-196.
- 1923: Les questions de Milinda, Milinda-Pañhha. Traduit du pali avec introduction et notes, Paris, Bossard.
- 1925: « Lokesvara en Indochine », Paris, EFEO/Van Oest,, Études Asiatiques, p. 227-256, pl. 16-25.
- 1925: « Inscriptions d'Angkor », BEFEO 25/3-4, p. 297-407.
- 1926:, Le temple d'Içvarapura, Paris, EFEO, 140 p., 72 pl.
- 1928: « Nouvelles inscriptions du Cambodge », BEFEO 28/1-2, p. 43-80, pl. 1-5.
- 1929-32:, Le temple d'Angkor Vat, Paris, EFEO.
