Alexandre Bertrand
Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand (June 11, 1820 – 1902) was a French archaeologist born in Rennes. He was the son of physician Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand (1795-1831) and elder brother to mathematician Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822-1900).
Bertrand studied at Ecole Normale Superieure de la rue d'Ulm, and after a three-year expedition to Babylon, he became a member of the École française d'Athènes (1849). From 1851 to 1857 he was a professor of rhetoric at Rennes.
Bertrand was a pioneer of Gallic and Gallo-Roman archaeology, and was involved in the archaeological dig at Alise-Sainte-Reine. In 1867 he was founder of the "Musée d'Archéologie Nationale" (Museum of National Antiquities) in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, being its director until his death in 1902.
In 1882 he became a professor of archaeology at the École du Louvre. He was an editor of Revue Archeologique and a member of Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Selected writings
- Études de mythologie et d'archéologie grecques d'Athène à Argos, 1858 - Studies of Greek mythology and archaeology of Athens and Argos.
- Archéologie celtique & gauloise, mémoires et documents relatifs aux premiers temps de notre histoire nationale, 1876 - Celtic and Gallic archaeology.
- La Gaule avant les Gaulois, 1891 - Gaul prior to the Gallic.
- Les Celtes dans les vallées du Po et du Danube, 1894 - Celtic people in the Po and Danube Valleys.
References
- This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia. Contains long list of publications associated with Bertrand.
- Open Library List of publications by author
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