Adolphe Reinach

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Adolphe Reinach
Adolphe Reinach,1910
Born
Adolphe Joseph Reinach

(1887-01-12)12 January 1887
8th arrondissement of Paris
Died30 August 1914(1914-08-30) (aged 27)
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Archaeologist and Egyptologist
Known forParticipated in excavations in Greece and Egypt and published works on the Gauls
Notable workL'Égypte préhistorique

Adolphe Joseph Reinach (12 January 1887 – 30 August 1914) was a French

Egyptologist who participated in excavations in Greece and Egypt and published works on the Gauls
.

Working in Egypt for the Société française des fouilles archéologiques with Raymond Weill in 1910–1911, he discovered the Coptos Decrees in the temple of Min at Coptos.[1][2][3]

Biography

Joseph Reinach, Adolphe's father, here in 1912.

Adolphe Reinach was born on 12 January 1887 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, the son of the archaeologist Joseph Reinach (1856-1921) and his wife Henriette-Clémentine Reinach (1866-1918).

Adolphe did numerous travels around the Mediterranean and consequently studied at the

First Intermediate Period. A number of the artefacts unearthed by Reinach are now housed in the Musée Guimet and Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
, both in Lyon.

With the onset of the

Second World War
, at the same age as his father was during the First.

Works

Notes

  1. ^ Raymond Weill: Koptos. Relation sommaire des travaux exécutés par MM. A. Reinach et R. Weill pour la Société française des Fouilles Archéologiques (campagne de 1910), ASAE 11, 1911, pp. 97-141.
  2. ^ Raymond Weill: Les décrets royaux de l'ancien empire égyptien trouvés à Koptos en 1910 ; communication lue à la séance du 27 janvier 1911, in: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 55e année, N. 3, 1911. pp. 268-275, available online.
  3. ^ Adolphe Reinach: Catalogue des Antiquites egyptiennes recueillies dans les Fouilles de Koptos, 1910-11, Journal of Hellenic Studies 35:157 (1915).
  4. ^ Henri Hubert: Nécrologie: Adolphe-Joseph Reinach, Revue Celtique 37 (1917–1919): pp. 411–413, available online
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