André de Ridder (archaeologist)

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André Henri Pierre de Ridder (born September 20, 1868 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye , † May 12, 1921 in Paris ) was a French classical archaeologist .

André de Ridder was the son of the Belgian Pierre Léopold Octave de Ridder (born September 4, 1836) and Pauline Emilie Catherinet de Rancey. He had a brother Gustave Julien Henri de Ridder (born October 5, 1861).

He studied at the Académie in Aix-en-Provence and from 1886 at the École normal supérieure in Paris . From 1890 to 1894 he was a member of the École française d'Athènes and carried out the first excavations in Gla in June 1893 . During these years he wrote two catalogs of ancient bronzes in Athens. In 1896 he received his doctorate with the dissertations De l'idée de la mort en Grèce à l'époque classique and De ectypis quibusdam aeneis quae falso vocantur "argivo-corinthiaca" at the Sorbonne . He then became Maître de conférences at the Académie in Aix-en-Provence. In 1908 he became curator of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Louvre .

Fonts

  • Catalog des bronzes de la Société archéologique d'Athènes. Paris 1894.
  • Catalog des bronzes trouvés sur l'acropole d'Athènes. Paris 1896.
  • Catalog des vases peints de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris 1901 ( online ).
  • Collection De Clercq . Catalog. 5 volumes, Paris 1904–1912.
  • Les bronzes antiques du Louvre. Paris 1913.
  • Musee du Louvre. Département des antiquités greques et romaines. Catalog sommaire des bijoux antiques. Paris 1924.

literature

  • Obituary in: Syria. Revue d'Art Oriental et d'Archéologie , Volume 2, 1921, p. 176 ( online ).
  • Les donateurs du Louvre. Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1989, p. 304.

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personal data
SURNAME Ridder, André de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ridder, André Henri Pierre de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Germain-en-Laye
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1921
Place of death Paris