Franz Cumont

Franz Cumont
Born(1868-01-03)3 January 1868
Died20 August 1947(1947-08-20) (aged 79)
NationalityBelgian
Alma materUniversity of Ghent
AwardsFrancqui Prize (1936)
Scientific career
Fieldsarcheology

Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont (3 January 1868 in Aalst, Belgium – 20 August 1947 in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre near Brussels) was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity, notably Mithraism.