
Baron Jean Joseph Antoine Marie de Witte (24 February 1808,
Antwerp
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- 29 July 1889, Paris) was a Belgian archeologist,
epigraphist
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and
numismatist
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.
He collaborated with
François Lenormant
François Lenormant (; 17 January 1837 – 9 December 1883) was a 19th-century French Hellenist, Assyriologist, and archaeologist.
Biography Early life
Lenormant's father, Charles Lenormant, distinguished as an archaeologist, numismatist and E ...
in founding the
Gazette archéologiqueGazette archéologique
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.
External links
Biography and bibliography of Jean Joseph Antoine Marie de Witte by the Chevalier Edmond Marchal
References
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1808 births
1889 deaths
Scientists from Antwerp
Belgian archaeologists