Jean-Vincent Scheil

Father Jean-Vincent Scheil (born 10 June 1858, Kœnigsmacker – died 21 September 1940, Paris) was a French Dominican scholar and Assyriologist.

After being ordained in 1887, he took courses in Egyptology and Assyriology at the École des Hautes Études, and was a student at the Collège de France, where he was a pupil of Assyriologist Julius Oppert.

In 1890/91 as a member of the French Archaeological Mission of Cairo, he took part in excavations at Thebes.

[2] In 1895 he became a lecturer at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, where in 1908 he was named its director.

[1] In 1901 he discovered Hammurabi's Law Code at Susa, of which, he subsequently translated and published the 250 articles of the stele containing approximately 3600 lines;[2][3] La loi de Hammourabi (vers 2000 av.