Conradus Leemans

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Conradus Leemans

Conradus Leemans , also Conrad Leemans , (born April 28, 1809 in Zaltbommel , † October 13, 1893 in Leiden ) was a Dutch archaeologist , Egyptologist and director of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden for more than half a century .

Life

Conradus Leemans was born the son of the doctor Wilhelmus Leemans (1774–1848) and Hillegonda Rachel Ganderheyden (1785–1858). On June 13, 1840, he married Cornelia Maria de Virieu (1816-1904). The marriage resulted in two children, Wilhelmus François (1841–1929, later a hydraulic engineer ) and Maria Hillegonda (1850–1913).

Act

He first began studying theology at the University of Leiden , but switched to archeology after meeting Caspar Reuvens , the world's first professor of this subject. In 1834 he was employed by the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, whose first director was Reuvens at the time. Together with him, he also uncovered a 90 m by 60 m large stone building in Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum , the Roman Nijmegen , in 1934 , the function of which has not yet been conclusively clarified.

In 1839 he was Reuven's successor as museum director in Leiden. He remained in this position until 1891. He presented the first public exhibition of his predecessor's acquisitions, compiled a catalog of Egyptian objects and acted as editor of a series of Egyptian stone monuments, in which they were documented and described in detail using lithographs . In 1840 he was appointed a member of the Koninklijk Nederlandsch Instituut van Wetenschappen , as the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences was then. From the 1840s he published on the Roman remains in the Netherlands and acted as editor of the Greek papyri from the museum holdings. He began to build up the extensive ethnological collection of the house, for which he in turn presented corresponding publications, in particular on the temple complexes in Prambanan and Borobodur . This part of the collection was given to the Reichsmuseum für Völkerkunde in 1903 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Horapollinis Niloi Hieroglyphica . Muller, Amsterdam 1835, ( digitized at archive.org ).
  • Observations on three Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions found at Watermore, near Cirencester, in Gloucestershire, in 1835 and 1836 . In: Archaeologia 27 (1838), pp. 211–228, ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Lettre à M. François Salvolini sur les monuments égyptiens . Hazenberg, Leiden 1838, ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Description of raisonnée des monumens [sic!] Egyptian Museum of Antiquities of the Pays-Bas à Leide . Hazenberg, Leiden 1840, ( digitized at archive.org ).
  • Romeinsche steenen Doodkisten, bij Nijmegen in den Zomer van 1840 opgedolven, en thans, met de daarin gevonden Voorwerpen, bewaard in het Museum van Oudheden te Leyden . Reprint from Bijdragen voor Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde , 3, Amsterdam 1842, ( full text in the Google book search).
  • as editor: Papyri Graeci Musei Antiquarii Publici Lugduni Batavi . Volume 1, Hazenberg, Leiden 1843 ( full text in the Google book search); Volume 2, Brill, Leiden 1885.
  • Javaan temples at Prambanan . In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië , III, 1855, pp. 1–26, ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Bôrô-Boedoer op het eiland Java . Volume 1. Brill, Leiden 1873, ( digitized at archive.org ). * Het Romeinsch grafteeken van Dodewaard . Van der Post, Amsterdam 1875, ( full text in the google book search).

literature

  • Wilhelmus François Leemans (ed.): L'égyptologue Conrade Leemans et sa correspondance. Contribution to the history of science . Brill, Leiden 1973.
  • Ruurd B. Halbertsma : Travelers and Trade. The Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, 1818-1840 . Routledge, London 2004, ISBN 978-0-415-51855-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JC Ramaer: Levensbericht van Ir. WF Leemans (Sept. 13, 1841 - Nov. 29, 1929) . In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde 1930 pp. 23–33 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Hendrik Brunsting : Een van opgraving Reuvens en Leemans bij het continued Krayenhoff te Nijmegen in 1834 . In: Oudheidkundige Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden 30 (1949), pp. 47-65.
  3. ^ Conradus Leemans: Description of raisonnée des monumens [sic!] Egyptians du Musée d'Antiquités des Pays-Bas à Leide . Hazenberg, Leiden 1840, ( digitized from Google Books ).
  4. ^ Conradus Leemans (ed.): Monuments égyptiens du Musée d'antiquités des Pays-Bas à Leide . Brill, Leiden 1839 to 1905.
  5. ↑ Among other things Conradus Leemans: Romeinsche steenen Doodkisten, bij Nijmegen in den Zomer van 1840 opgedolven, en thans, met de daarin gevonden Voorwerpen, bewaard in het Museum van Oudheden te Leyden . Reprint from Bijdragen voor Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde , 3, Amsterdam 1842, ( digitized at Google Books ); and so: Het Romeinsch grafteeken van Dodewaard . Van der Post, Amsterdam 1875, ( digitized from Google Books ).
  6. ^ Conradus Leemans (Ed.): Papyri Graeci Musei Antiquarii Publici Lugduni Batavi. Volume 1, Hazenberg, Leiden 1843, ( digitized from Google Books ); and the same. (Ed.): Papyri Graeci Musei Antiquarii Publici Lugduni Batavi. Volume 2, Brill, Leiden 1885.
  7. ^ Conradus Leemans: Javaansche tempels bij Prambanan . In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië , III, 1855, pp. 1–26, ( digitized from Google Books ); and Ders .: Bôrô-Boedoer op het eiland Java. Volume 1, Brill, Leiden 1873, ( digitized from Google Books ).
personal data
SURNAME Leemans, Conradus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leemans, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch archaeologist, Egyptologist and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaltbommel
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1893
Place of death Suffer