Joseph G. Hackin
| Commandant Joseph G. Hackin | |||||||
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| Born | 1866 | ||||||
| Died | 1941 | ||||||
| Residence | (Free France) | ||||||
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archaeologist philologist | ||||||
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died in the service of Free France while engaged in a hazardous mission upon which he embarked on the day after his election
death noted in Report of the Council 1940-1941
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Joseph Hackin (born 1886 in Boevange-sur-Attert (Luxembourg) - died 24 February 1941) was a French archeologist and Resistance member.
Born in Luxembourg, he was graduated from the Ecole libre des sciences politiques and of the Ecole des langues orientales, Paris. He acquired the French nationality in 1912. Assistant curator of the Musée Guimet, he became later curator. After several archeological missions in Afghanistan, he was appointed director of the Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan in 1934.
During the excavations conducted by Hackin and his team in Begram, between 1937 and 1940, an exeptional treasure of the Kushan period (1st-2d century A.D.) was unearthed. It included a large number of Roman bronze, alabaster, Syrian glass, coins, Chinese lacquer bowls, and the famous "Begram ivories".[1]
In October 1940, with his wife, Marie Hackin, he joined the Free French Forces in London. Appointed personal representative of the General de Gaulle in India and surrounding countries, he perished with his wife when their transport ship, "Jonathan Holt", was sank by a German torpedo near the Faroe Island, 24 February 1941.[2]
Croix de Guerre 1914-1918
Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
Compagnon de la Libération
Wife: Marie Parmentier, married name Marie Hackin, (1905-1941) was an archaeologist and Resistance member who worked with her husband Joseph Hackin who also was an archaeologist, philologist, and Resistance member. Marie Hackin's father was from Luxembourg.[1] She died in 1941 when she was in a sea convoy trying to go from Liverpool into the Atlantic ocean en route to Africa, when the ship was sunk by a German submarine.
