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French archaeologists

32 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Alexandre LenoirArtist · PaintingsMarie Alexandre Lenoir (French pronunciation: [maʁi alɛksɑ̃dʁ lənwaʁ]; 27 December 1761 – 11 June 1839) was a French archaeologist.
Auguste SalzmannPhotographer · PhotographyAuguste Salzmann (1824–1872) was a French archaeologist, painter, and pioneer in the field of archaeological photography.
Austen Henry LayardArtist · PaintingsSir Austen Henry Layard (5 March 18175 July 1894) was a British Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat.
Désiré CharnayPhotographer · PhotographyClaude-Joseph Désiré Charnay (2 May 182824 October 1915) was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use…
Edme-François JomardAuthor · Maps and atlasesEdme-François Jomard (lang; 1777 – September 22, 1862) was a French cartographer, engineer, and archaeologist.
Émile Étienne GuimetPerson · Music memorabiliaÉmile Étienne Guimet (emil ɡimɛ; 2 June 183612 October 1918) was a French industrialist, traveler and connoisseur.
Eugène FlandinIllustrator · IllustrationJean-Baptiste Eugène Napoléon Flandin (15 August 1809 in Naples – 29 September 1889 in Tours), French orientalist, painter, archaeologist, and politician.
Eugène LefébureAuthor · BooksEugène Lefébure (11 November 1838 – 9 April 1908) was a French Egyptologist born in Prunoy.
Félix Marie Charles TexierDesigner · DesignFélix Marie Charles Texier (22 August 1802, Versailles – 1 July 1871, Paris) was a French historian, architect and archaeologist.
Félix ThiollierPhotographer · PhotographyIllustration — Félix Thiollier (ca.
Franz Christian GauDesigner · DesignFranz Christian Gau (15 June 1790, in Cologne – January 1854, in Paris) was a French architect and archaeologist of German descent.
Fred VargasAuthor · BooksFred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (born 7 June 1957), a French historian, archaeologist and novelist.
George GroslierPhotographer · PhotographyGeorge Groslier (February 4, 1887 – June 18, 1945) was a French polymath who – through his work as a painter, writer, historian, archaeologist, ethnologist, architect, photographer and…
Guillaume de JerphanionPhotographer · PhotographyGuillaume de Jerphanion, born in Pontevès in 1877, died in Rome on 22 October 1948, was a French Jesuit, archaeologist and explorer of Cappadocia.
Henri d'Arbois de JubainvilleAuthor · BooksIllustration — Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville
Henri Gadeau de KervillePhotographer · PhotographyIllustration — Henri Gadeau de Kerville (1884)
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de PerthesAuthor · BooksJacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (10 September 1788 – 5 August 1868), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes (uklang), was a French archaeologist and antiquary notable for his…
Jacques Ignace HittorffDesigner · DesignIllustration — Jacques Hittorff; portrait by Ingres.
Jane DieulafoyPhotographer · PhotographyJane Dieulafoy (29 June 1851 – 25 May 1916) was a French archaeologist, explorer, novelist, feminist and journalist. She was the wife of Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy.
Jean-Baptiste ViettyArtist · SculptureIllustration — Vietty's Apollino (Musée des Beaux-Arts of Lyon)
Jean-Jacques BarthélemyAuthor · BooksJean-Jacques Barthélemy (20 January 1716 – 30 April 1795) was a French Catholic clergyman, archaeologist, numismatologist and scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct…
Jean-Jacques BoissardAuthor · BooksJean-Jacques Boissard (1528 – 30 October 1602) was an antiquary and Neo-Latin poet.
Jules FormigéDesigner · DesignJules Formigé (23 June 1879 – 17 August 1960) was a 20th-century French architect.
Jules QuicheratAuthor · BooksJules Étienne Joseph Quicherat (13 October 1814 – 8 April 1882) was a French historian and archaeologist.
Léon de LabordeAuthor · BooksIllustration — Walls of the Konya citadel, built and decorated by Kayqubad I, incorporated many Greco-Roman Classical elements. Léon de Laborde, 1838.
Louis DutensAuthor · BooksLouis Dutens (15 January 173023 May 1812) was a French writer born in Tours, of Protestant parents, who lived most of his life in Britain or in British service on the continent.
Louis-François CassasDesigner · DesignLouis-François Cassas (June 3, 1756 – November 1, 1827) was a French landscape painter, sculptor, architect, archaeologist and antiquary born in Azay-le-Ferron, in the Indre Department of…
Maurice GlaizeDesigner · DesignIllustration — Maurice Glaize
Melchior de VogüéAuthor · BooksMarie-Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé (25 February 1848 – 29 March 1910) was a French diplomat, Orientalist, travel writer, archaeologist, philanthropist and literary critic.
Roman GhirshmanPhotographer · PhotographyRoman Ghirshman was a French anthropologist, archaeologist, art historian, explorer, photographer and university teacher (1895–1979). He was born in Kharkiv and died in Budapest.
Victor SegalenPhotographer · PhotographyVictor Segalen (14 January 1878 – 21 May 1919) was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic.
Vivant DenonArtist · PaintingsDominique Vivant, Baron Denon (dɔminik vivɑ̃ baʁɔ̃ dənɔ̃; 4 January 1747 – 27 April 1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist.[1] Denon was a diplomat for…

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