Bertrand Alibert

Bertrand Alibert (born October 27, 1775 in Villeneuve-d'Agen , Lot-et-Garonne department , † October 1, 1808 in Moulins , Allier department ) was a French engineer.

Life

Alibert was trained at the École polytechnique in Paris and at the École nationale des ponts et chaussees .

In 1798 Alibert became a member of the Commission des sciences et des arts , which accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte on his Egyptian campaign . He was also involved in the creation and publication of the Description de l'Égypte .

In the winter of 1801/02 Alibert returned to France and settled in Paris for a few years. He spent the last years of his life in Moulins. He died shortly before his 33rd birthday and found his final resting place there.

literature

• Édouard de Villiers du Terrage: L'expedition d'Égypte 1798-1801. Journal et souvenirs d'une jeune savant engaged dans l'état-major de Bonaparte . Paris 1899 (reprinted by Cosmopole, Paris 2003), p. 350.
• Édouard de Villiers du Terrage: Journal et souvenirs sur l'expedition d'Égypte . Paris 1899 (Reprint Phénix Edition, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7458-0319-0 ).
• Friedrich Max Kircheisen : Napoleon in the land of the pyramids and his successors. 1798-1801 . Hamburg 1918 (reprinted by Severus, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86347-322-8 ).
• Yves Laissus: L'Égypte, une aventure savante avec Napoleon, Kléber , Menou , 1798-1801 . Fayard, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-213-60096-1 .