Marguerite Rutten

Marguerite Rutten (18 October 1898, Paris - 07 April 1984, Nice) was a French archaeologist and Assyriologist.

Marguerite Rutten
Born(1898-10-18)October 18, 1898
Paris
DiedApril 7, 1984(1984-04-07) (aged 85)
Nice, France
Citizenship France
Alma materÉcole du Louvre
Scientific career
FieldsAssyriology
InstitutionsÉcole du Louvre
PatronsCharles Fossey, Georges Contenau, René Dussaud
ThesisContrats de l'époque séleucide conservés au Musée du Louvre (1933, published in 1935)

Biography

“Maggie” Rutten, of Dutch ancestry, studied first at the Institut Catholique de Paris (diplome 1930).[1] Then she spent her entire career at the Louvre, first as a chargé de mission in the Department of Oriental Antiquities.[2]

She graduated from the École du Louvre in 1933. She then became an attaché and in 1934 published a Guide to Oriental Antiquities in the Louvre Museum.[3] She was one of the main actors of Charles Fossey's conference at the École pratique des hautes études and obtained the title of graduate student with a work under his direction (Contracts from the Seleucid period in the Louvre Museum[4][5]). This book attracted the attention of André Aymard, “who thanked Miss Rutten for having accompanied her copies with translations and transcriptions, thus allowing Hellenists to have access to this documentation”.[6] She became a lecturer in Sumerian and Assyrian epigraphy and published an introductory manual on Accadian.[7] In 1937 she became Georges Contenau's assistant and in 1940, she was a substitute teacher at the École du Louvre for André Parrot, who had been mobilised.[8] For thirty years, she also taught public art history courses on oriental archaeology at the École du Louvre in the evenings, as part of the Rachel Boyer Foundation.[2][nb 1]

The fact that she was a woman and, above all, personal enmities prevented Mr Rutten from taking up the position of Curator and she remained an assistant to the National Museums until her retirement. Aware of the injustice done to her, the Museums Administration gave her the title of Curator when she left the Oriental Department after 34 years of good and loyal service.

— Agnes Spycket[2]

She died in Nice in 1984 where she spent the last twenty years of her life.[2]

Works
  • Éléments d'accadien (assyro-babylonien), notions de grammaire (1937), Adrien-Maisonneuve, Paris, 1937.[9]
  • Babylone, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1948, 32 editions published between 1948 and 1966 in 3 languages.[10][11]
  • La science des Chaldéens, Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1960.[12][13]
  • Les arts du Moyen-Orient ancien, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1963.[14]

Distinctions

Notes
  1. Rachel Boyer (1864-1935) was a French actress and philanthropist, resident at the Comédie-Française.

References
  1. Spycket, Agnés. "Women in Old World Archaeology". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  2. Spycket, Agnès (2004). A temps et à contretemps: un demi-siècle d'archéologie et de contacts dans le domaine du Proche-Orient (in French). Recherches et publications. p. 14. ISBN 978-2-940032-16-7.
  3. "M. Rutten. — Antiquités Orientales (Musée du Louvre)". Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire. 16 (2): 205–206. 1935.
  4. Contenau, Georges (1936). "M. Rutten. Contrats de l'époque séleucide conservés au Musée du Louvre". L'Antiquité Classique. 5 (2): 478–480.
  5. Trochet, Arnaud (2020). "La médiation orale avant l'heure (1919-1944) : visites accompagnées et conférences éducatives au Louvre et dans les musées nationaux : enjeux, modalités, acteurs" (in French): 76. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. Charpin, Dominique. 1933 : la découverte de Mari (in French).
  7. Gadd, C. J. (1939). "Éléments d'Accadien (Assyrien-Babylonien) (Notions de Grammaire). By M. Rutten. 10 × 6½, pp. 99. Paris: Lib. d'Amérique et d'Orient, Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1937". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. 71 (2): 311–313. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00088973. S2CID 163620298. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  8. "Diplôme d'élève breveté de l'école spéciale des langues orientales vivantes". docplayer.fr. Archived from the original on 2022-02-13. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  9. Rutten, Marguerite (1937). "Éléments d'accadien (assyro-babylonien), notions de grammaire". Adrien-Maisonneuve. Archived from the original on 2022-02-13. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  10. Merlin, Alfred (1948). "Marguerite Rutten. Babylone". Journal des Savants (in French). p. 183. Archived from the original on 2022-02-13. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  11. Rutten, Marguerite (1898-1984) Auteur du texte (1966). Babylone (3e édition) / par Marguerite Rutten,... (in French).
  12. Milloux, Henri (1961). "Marguerite Rutten, La science des Chaldéens (Collection «Que sais-je ? »), 1960". Revue des Études Anciennes. 63 (1): 121–123. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  13. Rutten, Marguerite (1898-1984) Auteur du texte (1970). La science des Chaldéens (2e éd. mise à jour) / par Marguerite Rutten,... (in French).
  14. Rutten, Marguerite (1898-1984) Auteur du texte (1970). La science des Chaldéens (2e éd. mise à jour) / par Marguerite Rutten,... (in French).
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