Charles Texier
Félix Marie Charles Texier (22 August 1802,
Asia Minor and the Middle East. These books included descriptions and maps of ancient sites, reports of regional geography and geology
, descriptions of art works and architecture, et al.
Trained as an architect at the
Persia.[4]
In 1840, he became deputy professor of archaeology at the Collège de France, and in 1845 relocated to Algeria as inspector general of public buildings.[4] In 1855, he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.[1]
Published works
- Asie mineure: description géographique, historique et archéologique des provinces et des villes de la Chersonnèse d'Asie, 1862 – Asia Minor, geographical, historical and archaeological descriptions of its provinces and cities.
- Description de l'Arménie et de la Perse, de la Mésopotamie, 1842–45 – Description of Armenia, Persia and Mesopotamia.
- Mémoires sur la Ville et le port de Fréjus, 1847 – Memoirs on the city and port of Fréjus.
- Édesse et ses monuments, 1859 – Edessa and its monuments.
- L'Architecture byzantine ou recueil de monuments des premiers temps du christianisme en Orient, 1864 – Translated into English and published as Byzantine architecture : illustrated by examples of edifices erected in the East during the earliest ages of Christianity, London, (with Richard Popplewell Pullan), 1864.
- The principal ruins of Asia Minor, London, (with Richard Popplewell Pullan), 1865.[5]
References
- The American cyclopaedia edited by George Ripley & Charles Anderson Dana
- Parts of this article are based on a translation of text from the French Wikipedia, sources listed as:
- Texte extrait de Atlas topographique des villes de Gaule - 2 - Fréjus (Revue archéologique de Narbonaise) par L. Rivet, D. Brentchaloff, S. Roucole, S. Saulnier. (p. 23).
- Nouveau Larousse illustré, Dictionnaire universel encyclopédique, published under the editorship of Claude Augé, Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1898 - 1907.
- ^ a b Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
- ^ Texier, Charles (1835). "Rapport lu, le 15 mai 1835, à l'Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres de l'Institut, sur un envoi fait par M. Texier, et contenant les dessins de bas-reliefs découverts par lui près du village de Bogaz-Keui, dans l'Asie mineure" [Report read on 15 May 1835 to the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belle-lettres of the Institute, on a dispatch made by Mr. Texier and containing drawings of bas-reliefs discovered by him near the village of Bogaz-Keui [now: Boğazkale] in Asia Minor]. Journal des Savants (in French): 368–376.
- ^ Texier, Charles (1839). Description de l'Asie Mineure: faite par ordre du gouvernement français en 1833–1837 … [Description of Asia Minor: done by order of the French government in 1833–1837 …] (in French). Vol. 1. Paris, France: Didot Frères. pp. 209ff. Available at: University of Heidelberg, Germany
- ^ a b 1833 - Quondam (biographical & bibliographical information)
- ^ WorldCat Identities (published works)