Amable Audin (1899–1990) was a French archaeologist. He specialized in studying the Roman city of
Lugdunum
Lugdunum (also spelled Lugudunum, ; modern Lyon, France) was an important Colonia (Roman), Roman city in Gaul, established on the current site of Lyon, France, Lyon.
The Roman city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus, but cont ...
, known in modern times as
Lyon, France
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
.
Biography
Born in Lyon on July 25, 1899, Audin had a passion for archeology from a young age. He took part in his first dig at 20 years old.
In 1952, he succeeded
Pierre Wuilleumier
Pierre Wuilleumier (1 January 1904 – 20 November 1979) was a 20th-century French scholar, normalian, professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne and archaeologist.
Biography
Pierre Wuilleumier held the chair of National Antiq ...
in directing the dig at the Roman archeological site of
Fourviere, and found several major monuments in the ancient Roman city of Lugdunum (Lyon) including the
Odeon of Lyon, Cybel Sanctuary, and the
Amphitheater of the Three Gauls. Audin also made multiple fortuitous discoveries in the districts of
Vaise
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and the fifth arrondissement of Lyon. In some cases, his notes are the only documentation of sites later destroyed as the city grew. In 1956 he published ''La topographie de Lugdunum'', which has been updated many times.
In 1968 he was the first to observed a section of a Roman rampart, which in 2012 was confirmed to be part of the ''Murus Gallicus'' of Lyon.
As the conservator of many Gallo-Roman artifacts from Lyon, he convinced the mayor
Louis Pradel
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to construct a museum to house them. The Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière (known today as the
Lugdunum Museum) opened in 1975 with Audin as its first conservator.
He was a member of
The Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts of Lyon.
He died in Lyon on January 25, 1990.
References
1899 births
1990 deaths
French archaeologists
Place of birth missing
20th-century French archaeologists
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