Charles Dubois (archaeologist)

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Charles Dubois (* 1877 in Paris ; † 1965 ) was a French classical archaeologist .

Life

Charles Dubois was the son of the French composer and musician Théodore Dubois . In 1901 he became a member of the École française in Rome . During this time he began to study the history of the ancient port city of Puteoli , today's Pozzuoli . He described the Serapis cult from Egypt , which was confirmed by the discovery of a statue in Pozzuoli.

He received his PhD in humanities from the Faculté des Lettres de Paris of the then Paris University ; his dissertation was published in 1908. Dubois was a professor at the Lycée Rollin à Paris , later the Collège-lycée Jacques-Decour of the former University of Paris.

Dubois was the first scholar to develop the thesis that the importance of the port of Puteoli on the Gulf of Naples , as the most important port of the Roman Empire in the past, was waning towards the beginning of the 2nd century AD and that its economic primacy in Italy at that time was on the decline the port city of Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber passed over. In his monograph on ancient Pozzuoli, which was extensively reviewed in Germany by Karl Julius Beloch , Dubois presented the building history of the ancient port city. His arguments were adopted by most historians with a few modifications and were included in the history of the two cities. Only with regard to the thesis already expressed in 1902 that oriental cults had come to Italy via Pozzuoli did a dispute arise with the respected archaeologist Charles Clermont-Ganneau .

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  1. ↑ Qui êtes-vous? Annuaire des contemporains notices biografiques. G. Luffy, Paris 1924, p. 252.
  2. ^ Charles Dubois: Cultes et dieux à Pouzzoles. In: Mélanges de l'Ecole Française de Rome , 22, 1902, pp. 23-68 (translation into Italian by Gabriella Pisano under the title Culti e dei a Pozzuoli published by Valtrend, 2007).
  3. ↑ List des membres de l'Ecole française de Rome depuis sa fondation >> Charles Dubois , Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire 38, 1920, p. 326 (“1901-02”); French, accessed April 13, 2011.
  4. ↑ Charles Dubois: Pouzzoles antique. Histoire et topographie. Albert Fontemoing, Paris 1907 (French, online at Gallica ).
  5. ^ A b Karl Julius Beloch : Review by Charles Dubois: 'Pouzzoles Antique (histoire et topographie)'. In: Historische Zeitschrift , 104, 2, 1910, ISSN  0018-2613 , pp. 354-356.
  6. ^ JH D'Arms: Puteoli in the Second Century of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study . In: Journal of Roman Studies 64, 1974, ISSN  0075-4358 , p. 104 (English; first page from JSTOR , accessed April 13, 2011).
  7. ^ Charles Clermont-Ganneau: De Tyr à Pouzzoles. Florilegium Melchior de Vogué, 1909, pp. 111-128 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Dubois, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1965