Louis-François-Sébastien Fauvel
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Louis-François-Sebastien Fauvel | |
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Clermont-en-Beauvaisis | |
Died | March 12, 1838 | (aged 84)
Nationality | French |
Occupation(s) | Diplomat, antiquarian, artist. |
Louis-François-Sebastien Fauvel (born 14 September 1753 in
Biography
Louis-François-Sébastien Fauvel made his first stay in Greece in 1780-1782 in the service of the
Fauvel settled permanently in Athens in the summer of 1793, after the emigration of Choiseul-Gouffier to Russia.[1] In February 1796, he ended up being recognized for his archaeological work and named "non-resident partner" of the Institut de France. This assured him of funding for the pursuit of his research. He succeeded, for example, in sending to the Louvre a metope and a section of the Parthenon frieze.
The Egyptian campaign entailed his imprisonment and his expulsion from the Ottoman Empire. He arrived in complete destitution in Paris in December 1801, sixteen years after leaving France.
He then contented himself with limited research that he never published. In the same way, he sold the objects that he discovered, thus leaving the travellers who became the owners to publish their works on his discoveries. However, he played a key role in the development of archaeological knowledge of Athens and Attica by making the "cicerone" (guide) to the "tourists" who visited him. He was an early supporter and mentor of Kyriakos Pittakis, one of the first native Greek archaeologists and the future Ephor General of Antiquities.[6]
During the Greek War of Independence, Fauvel attempted to save the surviving Turkish prisoners from the Siege of the Acropolis, several hundred of whom were massacred by irregular Greek forces in June 1822.[7][a] Along with the Austrian consul, Georg Christian Gropius, he sheltered some of the surviving prisoners in his house, which was attacked by around 2,000 Greek fighters, until the arrival of two French warships allowed their evacuation.[9] His house, which housed his sizeable collection of antiquities, would later be destroyed in 1825.[10] He fled the fighting to Smyrna, where he died in 1838.[1]
Footnotes
Notes
References
- ^ a b c d e f De Grummond 2015.
- ^ Hellman, Fraisse & Jacques 1982, p. 27.
- ^ Petrakos 2007, p. 22.
- ^ Saunders 2007.
- ^ Pearce & Ormrod 2017.
- ^ Mallouchou-Toufano 2007, p. 42.
- ^ Beresford 2016, p. 923.
- ^ Beresford 2016, n.53, with bibliography.
- ^ Beresford 2016, pp. 923–924.
- ^ Wagner & Schelling 2017, p. 27.
Bibliography
- Beresford, James (2016). "'Alchemy on the Acropolis: Turning ancient lead into restitutionist gold". S2CID 163841256.
- ISBN 9781134268610.
- Hellman, Marie-Christine; Fraisse, Phillipe; Jacques, Annie (1982). Paris-Rome-Athens: Travels in Greece by French architects in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries [exhibition catalogue]. Houston: University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780890900321.
- Mallouchou-Toufano, Fani (2007). "The Vicissitudes of the Athenian Acropolis in the Nineteenth Century: From Castle to Monument". In ISBN 9780892369102.
- Pearce, Susan; Ormrod, Theresa (2017-06-16). Charles Robert Cockerell in the Mediterranean: Letters and Travels, 1810-1817. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9781783272068.
- Petrakos, Vasileios (2007). "The Stages of Greek Archaeology". In ISBN 9780892369102.
- Saunders, Nicholas J. (2007-07-30). Alexander's Tomb: The Two-Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conqueror. Basic Books. ISBN 9780465006212.
- Wagner, Johann Martin; Schelling, F. W. J. (2017). Report on the Aeginetan Sculptures with Historical Supplements. State University of New York Press. ISBN 9781438464824.