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Claude Gros de Boze (28 January 1680 – 10 September 1753) was a French scholar and
Académie française
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gros de Boze 1680 births 1753 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the Académie Française French numismatists Writers from Lyon Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Claude Gros de Boze (28 January 1680 – 10 September 1753) was a French scholar and numismatist
A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin ''numismatis'', genitive of ''numisma''). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholars who use coins and other currency in object-based research. Altho ...
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Biography
De Boze was born atLyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...
. Studying in Lyon and Paris, and settling in the latter around 1700, he gained the support of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault and thus (in 1705) became a pensionary of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigr ...
. In 1706 he was made the Académie des inscriptions' perpetual secretary and in 1715 he was elected to the Académie Française. In 1719 he was made curator or ''garde'' of the Cabinet des médailles et antiques, a post he held until his death. With his student and assistant Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (20 January 1716 – 30 April 1795) was a French scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. He deciphered the Palmyrene alphabet in 1754 and the Phoenician alphabet in 1758.
Early years
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he developed a method of classifying medals and in 1723 completed an "inventory of medals, engraved stones and other antique rarities in the Cabinet du roy". In 1727 he was elected a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and on 6 April 1749 even became a Fellow of the British Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...
. He died, aged 73, in Paris.
Main publications
*''Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand, avec des explications historiques par l'Académie royale des Médailles et des Inscriptions '' (1702) *''Traité historique sur le jubilé des Juifs'' (1702) *''Dissertation sur le Janus des anciens et sur quelques médailles qui y ont rapport'' (1705) *''Dissertation sur le culte que les Anciens ont rendu à la déesse de la Santé'' (1705) *''Explication d'une inscription antique trouvée depuis peu à Lyon, où sont décrites les particularitez des sacrifices que les Anciens appelloient « Tauroboles »'' (1705) *''Histoire de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres depuis son établissement jusqu'à présent'' (14 volumes) (1718–72) *'' Démétrius Soter, ou le Rétablissement de la famille royale sur le trône de Syrie'' (1746)External links
Académie française
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gros de Boze 1680 births 1753 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the Académie Française French numismatists Writers from Lyon Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres