Franz "Frans" Marius Theodor de Liagre Böhl (Vienna, Austria, 16 August 1882 – Milsbeek or Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 16 November 1976) was a Dutch professor of Assyriology and Hebrew.

[5] De Liagre Böhl studied Assyriology and theology at the University of Leipzig and the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and wrote two dissertations in German: Die Sprache der Amarnabriefe, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kanaanismen (a 1909 linguistic study, with translated title: The language of the Amarna letters, with special reference to (linguistic) Canaanisms), and Kanaanäer und Hebräer, Untersuchungen zur Vorgeschichte des Volkstums und der Religion Israels auf dem Boden Kanaans (a 1911 Licentiate thesis, with translated title: Canaanites and Hebrews, investigations into the prehistory of the people and religion of Israel on Canaan soil).

[6] In the years 1926-1928 he worked as an epigrapher in the archeological campaign of his father's Berlin colleague professor Ernst Sellin at Tell-el-Balâta (Tell Balata), the site of the biblical town of Sichem (Shechem) near Nablus in Palestine.

[4] De Liagre Böhl was closely involved in the establishment of The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (Dutch: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, NINO) by his student Arie Kampman.

[8] He received several international university honorary appointments:[1] De Liagre Böhl published many scholarly works, including:[9]