Franz Cumont

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Franz Cumont
Born	(1868-01-03)3 January 1868 Aalst, Belgium
Died	20 August 1947(1947-08-20) (aged 79) Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Nationality	Belgian
Alma mater	University of Ghent
Awards	Francqui Prize (1936)
Scientific career
Fields	archeology

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.