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词条 Franz Cumont
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  1. Bibliotheca Cumontiana

     Works by Cumont online  Critiques 

  2. External links

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}}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. Cumont was a graduate of the University of Ghent (PhD, 1887). After receiving royal travelling fellowships, he undertook archaeology in Pontus and Armenia (published in 1906) and in Syria, but he is best known for his studies on the impact of Eastern mystery religions, particularly Mithraism, on the Roman Empire. Cumont's international credentials were brilliant, but his public circumspection was not enough. 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. There was a vigorous press campaign and student agitation in Cumont's favor, because the refusal was seen as blatant religious interference in the University's life. 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.[1]

He contributed to many standard encyclopedias, published voluminously and in 1922, under stressful political conditions, conducted digs on the shore of the Euphrates at the previously unknown site of Dura-Europos; he published his research there in 1926. He was a member of most of the European academies. In 1936 Franz Cumont was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences. In 1947, Franz Cumont donated his library and papers to the Academia Belgica in Rome, where they are accessible to researchers.

His works include

  • Texts and Illustrated Monuments Relating to the Mysteries of Mithra (1894–1900, with an English translation in 1903) is the study that made his international reputation, by its originality and massive documentation.
  • Les religions orientales dans le paganisme romain (1906, widely translated)
  • After-Life in Roman Paganism, lectures delivered at Yale University, published in 1922, was cautiously expressed, but it corrected many false impressions of pagan rite that Christian apologists had made.
  • Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans (available in a Dover reprint)

After his death, critics of his interpretation of Mithras as the descendant of the Iranian deity Mithra began to be heard, and surfaced at the First International Congress of Mithraic Studies in Manchester England, 1971. Modern interpretation of Mithras as the astronomical bull-slayer have continued to move away from Cumont's interpretations, though his documentation remains valuable.

In 1997 the Royal Library, Brussels, observed the fiftieth anniversary of Cumont's death appropriately, with a colloquium on syncretism in the Mediterranean world of Antiquity. In 2010 the Belgian publisher Brepols started an edition of Cumont's collected works. The volumes are published in two series as 'major' and 'minor' writings identified by the acronyms BICUMA and BICUMI.[2]

References

1. ^The 2014 reedition of Franz Cumont's Astrologie is prefaced by articles rehearsing the details, see briefly Antonio C.D. Panainom, (2017)Franz Cumont, "Astrologie", [https://journals.openedition.org/anabases/6125 Anabases, No.25 p. 282-284]
2. ^Bibliotheca Cumontiana: Scripta Maiora et Scripta Minora, ed. by various, Brepols, 2010 -

Bibliotheca Cumontiana

  • 2010 Les religions orientales dans le paganisme romain, BICUMA 1
  • 2010 Lux perpetua, BICUMA 2
  • 2013 Les mystères de Mithra, BICUMA 3
  • 2015 Recherches sur le symbolisme funéraire des Romains, BICUMA 4
  • 2017 Comment la Belgique fut romanisée, BICUMA 5
  • 2015 Astrologie, BICUMI 4
  • 2017 Manichéisme, BICUMI 6
  • F. Cumont, Lux perpetua, B. Rochette, A. Motte (eds.), Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2010, {{ISBN|978-88-8419-423-7}}
  • F. Cumont, Les religions orientales dans le paganisme romain, C. Bonnet, F. Van Haeperen (eds.), Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2010, {{ISBN|978-88-8419-289-9}}

Works by Cumont online

  • {{Gutenberg author | id=Cumont,+Franz+Valery+Marie }}
  • {{Internet Archive author |sname=Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont}}
  • Mysteries of Mithra, by Franz Cumont (English translation) at sacred-texts.com
  • The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism, by Franz Cumont (English translation) at sacred-texts.com
  • Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans, by Franz Cumont at sacred-texts.com

Critiques

  • David Ulansey, "The Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras" David Ulansey's zodiacal interpretation of Mithraism

External links

  • Academia Belgica: Franz Cumont {{nl icon}}
  • Academia Belgica: Franz Cumont {{fr icon}}
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