Jean Charles Gabriel Virolleaud (2 July 1879 – 17 December 1968)[1] was a French archaeologist, one of the excavators of Ugarit.
Virolleaud was the author of La légende du Christ (1908) and was an advocate of the Christ myth theory.[2][3] He also wrote the books La Civilisation phénicienne (1933) and La Mythologie phénicienne (1938).[4]
^Case, Shirley Jackson. (1912). The Historicity of Jesus: A Criticism of the Contention that Jesus Never Lived, a Statement of the Evidence for His Existence, an Estimate of His Relation to Christianity. University of Chicago Press. p. 39
ObituarIes by André Parrot, “Charles Virolleaud (1879-1968)”, Syria: Revue d’art oriental et d’archéologie, 46 (1969), pp. 390–391, and by Ernst Friedrich Weidner, "Charles Virolleaud (2. July 1879 bis 17. December 1968)", Archiv für Orientforschung, 24 (1973), pp. 245–246.