Henri Parmentier

Henri Parmentier
Henri Parmentier in Angkor c. 1930
Born
Henri Ernest Jean Parmentier

(1870-01-03)3 January 1870
Paris
Died22 February 1949(1949-02-22) (aged 79)
Phnom Penh
Alma materÉcole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Spouse
(m. 1905)
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology
InstitutionsÉcole française d'Extrême-Orient

Henri Parmentier (French: Henri Ernest Jean Parmentier) was a French architect, art historian and archaeologist.[1] Parmentier became one of the first European specialists in the archaeology of Indochina.[2] He has documented, depicted and preserved many Khmer, Cham and Lao monuments.