Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand (11 June 1820 – 1902) was a French

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born in

Rennes Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...

Life

He was the son of physician

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(1795-1831) and elder brother to

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(1822-1900). Alexandre Bertrand studied at the École Normale Superieure, and later taught classes at the lycée in Laval (from 1848). In 1849 he became a member of the

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, and from 1851 to 1858, served as a professor of rhetoric at the lycée in Rennes.BERTRAND-Alexandre
INHA Bertrand was a pioneer of Gallic and

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archaeology, and was involved in the archaeological dig at

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(1861/62). In 1864, with

Louis Félicien de Saulcy Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy (19 March 1807 – 4 November 1880), better known as simply Félicien or Félix de Saulcy, was a French numismatist, Orientalist, and archaeologist. Early life Louis Felicien de Saulcy was born in Li ...

, he directed excavations of burial mounds at Meloisey. In 1862 he founded the Gallo-Roman museum in

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, serving as its curator from 1867 until his death in 1902. Assisting him in this endeavor were

Gabriel de Mortillet Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (29 August 1821 – 25 September 1898), French archaeologist and anthropologist, was born at Meylan, Isère. Biography Mortillet was educated at the Jesuit college of Chambéry and at the Paris Conservatoi ...

(1868 to 1885) and

Salomon Reinach Salomon Reinach (29 August 1858 – 4 November 1932) was a French archaeologist, religious historian and was a major figure in the Franco-Jewish establishment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was vice president of the ...

(1886 to 1902). From 1882 he taught classes in archaeology at the

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. He was an editor of '' Revue Archeologique'' and a member of

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres). History ...

.Annuaire de Bretagne: historique, litteraire et scientifique, 1897
edited by René Pocard du Cosquer de Kerviler, Paul Sébillot

Selected writings

* ''Études de mythologie et d'archéologie grecques, d'Athènes à Argos'', 1858 - Studies of

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and archaeology of

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and Argos. * ''Archéologie celtique & gauloise, mémoires et documents relatifs aux premiers temps de notre histoire nationale'', 1876 - Celtic and Gallic archaeology. * ''La Gaule avant les Gaulois'', 1891 -

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prior to the Gallic. * ''Les Celtes dans les vallées du Po et du Danube'', 1894 -

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in the Po and Danube Valleys.

References

* Long list of publications associated with Bertrand at the equivalent article of the

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External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bertrand, Alexandre French archaeologists Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Members of the French School at Athens École Normale Supérieure alumni Directors of museums in France Artists from Paris 1820 births 1902 deaths National Archaeological Museum, France