Charles Virolleaud, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Virolleaud

French archaeologist

Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1879

Place of Birth: Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1968

Profession: academic, archaeologist, anthropologist, non-fiction writer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Jean Charles Gabriel Virolleaud (1879, Barbezieux, Charente – 1968) was a French archaeologist, one of the excavators of Ugarit. Virolleaud was the author of La légende du Christ (1908) and was an advocate of the Christ myth theory.
He also wrote the books La Civilisation phénicienne (1933) and La Mythologie phénicienne (1938).