Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville
Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville | |
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| Born | 19 September 1769 Gerville-la-Forêt (Manche) |
| Died | 26 July 1853 (aged 83) Valognes (Manche) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | antiquarian, historian, naturalist, archaeologist |
Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville (Gerville-la-Forêt (Manche) 19 September 1769 —
architectural historians in France
.
Biography
His early studies were at the college of
Gervais de la Rue in Rouen, Auguste Le Prévost and Arcisse de Caumont
– virtually formed a "travelling school of architectural connoisseurship" (Noell).
In 1818 Duhérissier de Gerville used the expression ‘'romane’'— though in the sense of
OED cites first uses in English of 1715 about the languages, and 1819 about the architectural style. It was a more inclusive, European term for the massive round-arched style that had been recognized in Norman work in England, where the term "Norman architecture" was first used in 1817 by the antiquarian Thomas Rickman
, in his published essay An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation: English architectural historians long retained the term "Norman" for that version of the Romanesque.
Duhérissier de Gerville was a correspondent of the
Louis Philippe
.
Gerville published papers and antiquarian notes on the towns and
Léopold Delisle
.
Duhérissier de Gerville is very likely to have been intended as the person honoured in the
gastropod name Mitrella gervillii (Payraudeau 1826).[5] The Devonian coral Calceola gervillei (now known to belong to the genus Rhizophyllum) was similarly very likely to have named for him by Bayle (1878) although Bayle's material was collected by de Verneuil.[6]
Notes
- Louis XVI's minister of the interior in 1791.
- ^ The work was edited and republished by Dr. Michel Guibert, (St.-Lô 1999–2002).
- ^ "Romanik: Definition".
- ^ Noted by Elizabeth Williams, in "The perception of Romanesque art in the Romantic period: Archeological attitudes in France in the 1820s and 1830s", Forum for Modern Language Studies, 1985 XXI(4) pp 303-321.
- ^ "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. G". Archived from the original on 2010-10-27. Retrieved 2006-09-29.
- ^ BAYLE, E., 1878. Fossiles principaux des terrains de la France. Explication de la Carte Géologique de France 4 (1), 1-158.
References
- Destin: Biographies: Charles Alexis-Adrien de Gerville
- Matthias Noell, "Classement und classification: Ordnungssysteme der Denkmalpflege in Frankreich und Deutschland", in Symposium Nachdenken über Denkmalpflege, and note 7 Origins of the classification "Romanesque" (pdf file).
- (Franqueville) Institut de France: Liste des membres &c
- Vincent Juhel, ed. Arcisse de Caumont (1801–1873): Érudit normand et fondateur de l’archéologie française (Caen: Société des antiquaires de Normandie) 2005. (on-line review).
- Lexique des Normands: Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville ("doté d'un mauvais caractère")
- BAYLE, E., 1878. Fossiles principaux des terrains de la France. Explication de la Carte Géologique de France 4 (1), 1-158.
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