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Jean-Vincent Scheil

French translator
Father Jean-Vincent Scheil was a French Dominican scholar and Assyriologist. He is credited as the discoverer of the Code of Hammurabi in Persia. In 1911 he came into possession of the Scheil dynastic tablet and first translated it. Wikipedia
Born: June 10, 1858, Kœnigsmacker, France
Died: September 21, 1940 (age 82 years), Paris, France