Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer


Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer was a French archeologist, born in Strasbourg, who 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.
He was curator for the Prehistoric and Gallo-Roman Museum, Strasbourg and for the Museum of National Antiquities, Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Schaeffer was an advocate of catastrophism. He argued that on at least five occasions catastrophic events had destroyed Bronze Age civilizations.

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