Antoine Émile Ernest Desjardins (; 30 September 1823 – 22 October 1886) was a French historian,

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

and

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

. He was a younger brother of historian Abel Desjardins (1814–1886). In 1856 he began teaching classes in Latin

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

at the

Lycée Napoleon In France, secondary education is in two stages: * ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 14. * ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for students between ...

in Paris, and from 1861 taught courses in geography at the

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. For several years he conducted archaeological research in Italy,

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

and regions along the

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. In 1875, he became a member of the

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 ...

.Desjardins, Ernest Émile Antoine
Sociétés savantes de France In 1886, he was appointed professor of epigraphy and Roman antiquities at the

Collège de France The (), formerly known as the or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment () in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The has been considered to be France's most ...

Selected works

* ''Atlas géographique de l'Italie ancienne, composé de sept cartes et d'un dictionnaire de tous les noms qui y sont contenus'', 1852 – Geographical atlas of ancient Italy. * ''Essai sur la topographie du Latium'', 1854 – Essay on the topography of

Latium Latium ( , ; ) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire. Definition Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil (Old Latium) on whic ...

. * ''Le Pérou avant la conquête espagnole, d'après les principaux historiens originaux'', 1858 –

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before the Spanish conquest, etc. * ''Publication des oeuvres complètes de Bartolomeo Borghesi'', 1861 – Publication on the complete works of

Bartolomeo Borghesi Bartolomeo (also Bartolommeo) Borghesi (11 July 178116 April 1860) was an Italian antiquarian who was a key figure in establishing the science of numismatics. He was born at Savignano, near Rimini, and studied at Bologna and Rome. Having weake ...

. * ''Le grand Corneille, historien'', 1862 – On

Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille (; ; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage ...

. * ''Aperçu historique sur les embouchures du Rhône, travaux anciens et modernes'', 1866 – Historical overview on the mouth of the

Rhône The Rhône ( , ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Ròse''; Franco-Provençal, Arpitan: ''Rôno'') is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before dischargi ...

, ancient and modern works. * ''Les Juifs de Moldavie'', 1867 – The Jews of

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. * ''Rapport sur les deux ouvrages de bibliographie américaine de M. Henri Harrisse'', 1867 – Report on two American bibliographical works of

Henry Harrisse Henry Harrisse (May 28, 1829 – May 13, 1910) was a writer, lawyer, art critic, and American historian who authored books on the discovery of America and geographic representations of the New World. Biography Henry Harrisse was born Hen ...

. * ''Géographie de la Gaule d'après la Table de Peutinger'', 1869 – Geography of Gaul according to the

Peutinger Table ' (Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also known as Peutinger's Tabula, Peutinger tables James Strong and John McClintock (1880)"Eleutheropolis" In: ''The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature''. NY: Haper and Brothers ...

. * ''Rhône et Danube. Nouvelles observations sur les fosses Mariennes et le canal du Bas-Rhône'', 1870. – The Rhône and Danube. New observations on the Fosses Mariennes and the Bas-Rhône canal. * ''Géographie historique et administrative de la Gaule romaine'', (with

Auguste Longnon Auguste Honoré Longnon (18 October 1844 – 12 July 1911) was a French historian and archivist. He is remembered for his research in the field of historical geography and for his edition of the 15th century poet, Francois Villon. Biography L ...

) 1876 – Historical and administrative geography of

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Desjardins, Ernest 1823 births 1886 deaths Academic staff of the Collège de France French geographers 19th-century French archaeologists 19th-century French historians French epigraphers