Albert Dumont

Albert Dumont (born January 21, 1842 in Scey-sur-Saône , † August 11, 1884 in La Queue-les-Yvelines ) was a French historian and archaeologist.

Dumont grew up in Strasbourg and attended the École normal supérieure in Paris from 1861 to 1864 . From 1864 he was a member of the École française d'Athènes . He received his doctorate in Paris in 1870 with the thesis De plumbeis apud Græcos tesseris . Dumont became the first director of the École française de Rome in 1873 in the Palazzo Farnese , the seat of the French embassy in Rome, a branch of the École française d'Athènes. In 1876 he became director of the École française d'Athènes, 1879 Directeur de l'enseignement supérieure in Paris.

He dealt with Greek art and especially vase painting and ceramics. Eugène Müntz and Louis Duchesne were among his students in Rome . He also played an important role in the reformation of the teaching of classical archeology in France based on the German model, part of the educational reforms after the defeat in 1870/71.

Dumont was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 1882 .

Fonts

• Inscriptions ceramiques de Gréce. Archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires, Volume 6, Imprimerie Nationale 1871
• Peintures ceramiques de la Grèce propre. Recherches sur les noms d'artistes lus sur les vases de la Grèce. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale 1874
• Fastes éponymiques d'athènes. Nouveau mémoire sur la chronologie des archontes ... et list alphabétique des éponymes. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale 1874
• Essai sur l'éphébie attique. 2 volumes, Paris, Didot 1876
• Terres cuites orientales et gréco-orientales; Chaldée, Assyrie, Phénicie, Chypre, et Rhodes. Paris, 1884
• with Jules Chaplain: Les céramiques de la Grèce propre. 2 volumes. Didot, Paris 1888, 1890
• Notes and discours. 1873-1884. A. Colin, Paris 1885

literature

• Pierre Amandry : Albert Dumont, director of the Écoles de Rome et d'Athènes. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 100, 1976, pp. 1-5 ( online ).
• Jean-Marie Mayeur: Albert Dumont et les transformations de l'enseignement supérieure au debut de la troisième république. In: Bulletin de correspondence hellénique. Volume 100, 1976, pp. 7-10 ( online ).
• Stephen Dyson: In pursuit of ancient pasts. A history of classical archeology in the 19th and 20th century , Yale University Press, New Haven 2006, p. 89.

Web links

• Dictionary of Art Historians