Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer-Forrer (6 March 1898 – 25 August 1982)Vercoutter, Jean. (1989). Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Claude Schaeffer-Forrer, membre de l'Académie. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 133 (1): 178-188. was a French archeologist.
Biography Born in Strasbourg, he led the French excavation team that began working on the site of Ugarit, the present day Ras Shamra in 1929, leading to the uncovering of the Ugaritic religious texts.http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/612669/Ugarit; "Claude Schaeffer", in Je m'appelle Byblos, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, H & D, 2005, p.256-257. After the Second World War he began excavating the Late Bronze Age site of Enkomi.
He was curator for the Prehistoric and Gallo-Roman Museum, Strasbourg (1924–1933) and for the Museum of National Antiquities, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1933–1956).Anonymous. (1998). Claude-Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer. In The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume 10. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. p. 507 Schaeffer was an advocate of catastrophism. He argued that on at least five occasions catastrophic events (such as earthquakes) had destroyed Bronze Age civilizations.Burton Brown, T. (1949). Stratigraphie comparée et chronologie de l'Asie occidentale (IIIe et IIe millénaires) By C. F. A. Schaeffer. The Journal of Hellenic Studies 69: 114.Palmer, Trevor. (2003). Perilous Planet Earth: Catastrophes and Catastrophism Through the Ages. Cambridge University Press. pp. 120-121.
He died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 25 August 1982.
Selected publications
The Cuneiform Texts of Ras Shamra-Ugarit (1939) Stratigraphie Comparee Et Chronologie De L Asie Occidentale (1948) Note Sur L'enceinte Mycénienne D'enkomi (Chypre) (1948)
References
External links Claude Schaeffer – Ancient Middle East Destruction and epic discoveries