Charles Texier

Charles Félix Marie Texier (born August 29, 1802 in Versailles , † July 1, 1871 in Paris ) was a French traveler, archaeologist and architect .

Texier attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1823 , where he studied architecture, and in 1827 became a building officer in Paris. On behalf of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , he directed archaeological excavations in Fréjus and Ostia in 1828 and 1829 . After he was a guest in the Ishak Pascha Palace on today's eastern border of Turkey in 1830 , he reported full of admiration about its furnishings.

In 1833 he was sent to Asia Minor by the French Ministry of Culture , toured Phrygia , Cappadocia and Lycaonia in 1834 , the west and south coasts in 1835, and in 1836 took the route from Tarsus to Trebizond . In 1839 he traveled again, with La Guiche and Labourdonnaye, to Armenia , Persia and Mesopotamia and in 1842 again to the west coast of Asia Minor. From 1840 he was "professeur suppléant" for archeology at the Collège de France , on July 8, 1845 he was appointed "inspecteur général des bâtiments civils" in Algeria. He was secretary of the Geographical Society in Paris and was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions in 1855. Since 1837 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . During his travels he published well-received reports in which he published descriptions and plans of ancient sites, inscriptions, works of art and historical monuments. He is considered the discoverer or the first western visitor to many historical cities, including the Hittite capital Hattuša (July 28, 1834), which, however, he considered to be the Median pteria .

Fonts

• Description de l'Asie Mineure: faite par ordre du gouvernement français en 1833 - 1837; beaux-arts, monuments historiques, plans et topographie des cités antiques Vol. 1, Paris 1839 digitized, Heidelberg University Library , Vol. 2, 1849 digitized, Heidelberg University Library , Vol. 3, 1849 digitized, Heidelberg University Library .
• Asie mineure. Description geographique, historique et archéologique. Des provinces et des villes de la Chersonnèse d'Asie (= L'Univers. Histoire Et Description De Tous Les Peuples. C: Asie. ). Firmin Didot et al., Paris 1862, at GoogleBooks , digitized, Heidelberg University Library .
• Description of the Arménie et de la Perse, de la Mésopotamie. Geography, geology, monuments anciens & modern, moeurs & coutumes. 3 volumes (2 volumes, tabular volume). Firmin Didot, Paris 1842-1852.
• Édesse et ses monuments en mésopotamie. Challamel, Paris 1859 (special reprint from: Revue orientale et américaine. Vol. 1, No. 8, 1859, digitized, MDZ ).
• with Richard Popplewell Pullan : L'Architecture byzantine. Ou recueil de monuments des premiers temps du christianisme en Orient précédé de recherches historiques et archéologiques. Day & Son, London 1864; simultaneous English edition: Byzantine Architecture. Illustrated by examples of edifices erected in the East during the earliest ages of christianity with historical descriptions. Day & Son, London 1864.
• with Richard Popplewell Pullan: The principal ruins of Asia Minor, illustrated and described. Day & Son, London 1865, online .

literature

• Alexandre Portnoff: A la recherche du passé. Le premier voyage en Asie Mineure de Charles Texier. In Res antiquae. 5, 2008, ISSN  1781-1317 , pp. 389-404.
• Under Chronicle of Travel . In: Abroad. A daily newspaper for the knowledge of the spiritual and moral life of the peoples, Cotta, Munich:
  • Journeys for a closer knowledge of Asia Minor, undertaken by Karl Texier , (March) 1835, pp. 239–240, 243–244
  • Scientific trip of the Geolette Mésange on the coasts of Karamauia, under the direction of Mr. Texiers . (November) 1835, p. 1259
  • Another report by the French traveler Karl Texier about his trip to the Levant , (April) 1836, pp. 367–377, 371–372, 376, 380, 388 and 392.
  • Texier's Journey to Asia Minor in 1836 , (January) 1837, pp. 111–112, 115–116

Web links

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