Daniel Schlumberger
{{Short description|French archaeologist (1904–1972)}}
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| name = Daniel Schlumberger
| birth_name = Daniel Théodore Schlumberger
| birth_date = {{birth date|1904|12|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = Mülhausen, German Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|1972|10|21|1904|12|19|df=y}}
| death_place = Princeton, New Jersey, United States
| occupation = Archaeologist
}}
Daniel Théodore Schlumberger (19 December 1904 – 21 October 1972[http://ifpo.revues.org/1390 Daniel Schlumberger] Institut français du Proche-Orient) was a French archaeologist and Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Strasbourg and later Princeton University.
Biography
After having been invited by Khan Nasher in the 1960s, he conducted fieldwork at Ay Khanum in Afghanistan as Director of the Délégation Archéologique Française, discovering ruins and artifacts of the Hellenistic period.Answers.com. (2010). [http://www.answers.com/topic/daniel-schlumberger Daniel Schlumberger (Obituary: The Times, 25 October 1972)]. Retrieved on 2010-04-18. His written works were included posthumously in The Cambridge History of Iran (1983).
He was an older brother of Jean Schlumberger.
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Category:Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg
Category:Princeton University faculty
Category:Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Category:20th-century French archaeologists
Category:Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
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