Edmond Pottier

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Edmond François Paul Pottier (born August 13, 1855 in Saarbrücken , † July 4, 1934 in Paris ) was a French art historian and archaeologist .

Edmond Pottier studied from 1874 humanities at the École normal supérieure . After his license in 1877, he worked at the École française d'Athènes until 1880 . Afterwards he was Maître de conférences at the humanities faculty of the University of Rennes until 1883 . During these years he and his friend Salomon Reinach carried out the excavations in Myrina, Asia Minor, from 1880 to 1882 . In 1883/84 he was maître de conférences at the University of Toulouse . In 1884 he joined the Louvre and was deputy from 1893 to 1910, and then until 1924 curator of oriental archeology and ancient ceramics at the museum. In 1884 he became an employee of Edmond Saglio for the Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines , which he was solely responsible for after Saglio's death in 1911 and the last part of which he presented in 1915. He himself contributed 24 articles to the work. The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum , an international research project for the research and publication of ancient ceramics , goes back to his initiative. From 1922 to 1934 he was director of the company.

In 1886 he became a substitute professor, in 1908 professor at the École du Louvre , one of the grandes écoles , where he taught until 1921. Together with other Louvre scholars such as René Dussaud , he was editor of the magazine Syria , which was published from 1920 by the Institut français d'archéologie de Beyrouth at the Paris publisher Paul Geuthner .

Edmond Pottier became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1899 . In 1908 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1915 he resigned this membership in protest against the appeal "To the cultural world" . Edmond Pottier was named Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1923 .

Works

  • L'art hittite. Paul Geuthner, Paris, 1926–1931.
  • Douris et les petres de vases grecs. H. Laurens, Paris, 1930.

literature

  • René Cagnat : Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Edmond Pottier. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Volume 79, 1935, pp. 454-467 ( digitized version ).
  • René Dussaud : Edmond Pottier (1855-1934). In: Syria. Archeology, Art et histoire. Volume 15, 1934, pp. 217-221 ( digitized version ).
  • Paul Mazon: Éloge funèbre de M. Edmond Pottier, membre de l'Académie. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Volume 78, 1934, pp. 214-221 ( digitized version ).
  • Alfred Merlin : Necrology. La collaboration d'Edmond Pottier au “Journal des Savants”. In: Journal des Savants. Volume 5, 1934, pp. 224-227 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on the Academy's website.
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Edmond Pottier. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 27, 2015 .
  3. ^ Entry on Edmond Pottier.
personal data
SURNAME Pottier, Edmond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pottier, Edmond François Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1934
Place of death Paris