Edmond Saglio

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Edmond Saglio

Edmond Saglio (born June 9, 1828 in Paris ; died December 7, 1911 there ) was a French art historian and classical archaeologist as well as museum director.

Life

Antiquarian

Edmond Saglio comes from an originally Italian family who settled in Alsace in 1715 . His father Charles Joseph André Saglio (1799–1862) ran the sugar refineries in Ingouville and Harfleur near Le Havre with one of his brothers, the landscape painter Camille Saglio , before moving to Paris. He was married to Joséphine Paravey. Edmond Saglio received his first school education at the famous Collège Sainte-Barbe . After his father's economic fortunes turned, Edmond studied law . After his license he initially worked for the French Ministry of Justice, but under the impression of the monotonous work to be done there he settled down as a freelance lawyer for a short time. During this time he made friends with the painter Alfred de Curzon (1820–1895), with whom he visited museums and libraries. Alfred de Curzon married Edmond Saglio's cousin Amélie Saglio (1838–1889) in 1860.

Instead of aiming for a doctorate in law, Edmond Saglio turned to art history and archeology and went to the École nationale des chartes , where he developed into a first-class art historian and art critic under the guidance of Jules Quicherat (1814-1882). The time began in which he made numerous contributions to the Magasin pittoresque, then the Gazette des Beaux Arts and the Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de France .

A visit to an antiques exhibition in Rouen in 1861 was the reason to write his first article for the Journal des débats and to turn increasingly to antiquarian studies. His interest was not only in great art, but also in small and everyday art objects: jewelry, furniture, glasses and fabrics. He regularly visited the Louvre , where he came into contact with the curator Alfred Darcel (1818-1893). When in 1862 Napoleon III. Acquired collection of more than 10,000 objects from the Italian entrepreneur Giampietro Campana arrived in Paris, Edmond Saglio made it known to the public in an article for the Journal des débats . He was also involved in organizing the enormous collection for the Musée Napoléon III .

Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines

In 1865, in Charles Daremberg , Edmond Saglio met a man whose vision of a Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines would be decisive for the rest of his life. Disappointed that there was no French reference work comparable to the German Real Encyclopedia of Classical Classical Antiquities or the English Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities , Charles Daremberg conceived his project in 1857. Even unable to edit the entire manuscript because of various other obligations, he was able to win Edmond Saglio for this task. The latter, in turn, was able to convince Charles Daremberg to concentrate entirely on Greco-Roman antiquity, while Daremberg's original vision should also include the Jewish, Oriental, Christian and barbaric antiquities. The first authors could now be asked to submit their contributions. Proofs were commissioned as early as 1869 .

However, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and the resulting changes in the framework conditions made adjustments necessary for the further implementation of the dictionary. In 1872 a new contract was signed with the Hachette publishing house for printing, which secured Edmond Saglio the management of the company in the event of the death of Charles Daremberg, who was to occur that same year. From 1873 to 1884 Edmond Saglio was solely responsible for the project and found a sufficient number of qualified authors who could contribute with difficulty. In search of young scholars, he traveled to Rome for the first time in 1874 , whose art and antiquity collections made a lasting impression on him. The first of ten volumes was published in 1877. In 1887 published the second sub-band Edmond Saglio published under the ancient toreutics abhandelnden Lemma caelatura one of his few own contributions to the Dictionnaire . With Edmond Pottier , he won a fellow campaigner and co-editor of the Dictionnaire in 1884 , with whom he could share the work until his death and who was to bring the project to an end in 1915 - four years after Saglio's death - with the publication of the last partial volume.

In 1879 Edmond Saglio, succeeding Alfred Darcel curator for the art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance at the Louvre, 1893, he became director of the specializing in medieval art Musée de Cluny .

Honors and memberships

The Société des antiquaires de France elected him to its member in 1875, in 1888 he became its president, in 1900 its honorary member. The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres accepted him as a member in 1887. The Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques appointed him a member in 1897 and elected him in 1898 as its vice-president. Edmond Saglio was an officer in the Legion of Honor .

Publications (selection)

  • with Charles Daremberg : Dictionnaire des Antiquités grecques et romaines d'après les textes et les monuments contenant l'explication des termes qui se rapportent aux mœurs, aux institutions, à la religion, aux arts, aux sciences, au costume, au mobilier, à la guerre, à la marine, aux métiers, au monnaies, poids et mesures, etc., etc., et en général à la vie publique et privée des anciens. 10 volumes. Hachette, Paris 1877–1915.

literature

  • Ulysse Chevalier : Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Edmond Saglio; lue dans la séance du 16 may 1913. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Année. Volume 57, 1913 pp. 161-197 ( digitized version ).
  • Henri Omont : Éloge funèbre de M. Edmond Saglio, membre de l'Académie. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Volume 55, 1911, pp. 823-826 ( digitized version ).
  • Catherine Valenti: "Daremberg et Saglio" or "Saglio et Pottier"? La difficile gestation d'un dictionnaire savant. In: Anabases. Volume 4, 2006, pp. 159-167 ( digitized version ).

Web links

  • Edmond Saglio on the website of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques

Remarks

  1. ↑ Edouard Delobette: Ces Messieurs du Havre. Negociants, commissionnaires et armateurs de 1680 a 1830. Dissertation Université de Caen, Caen 2005, p. 200 f. with note 380 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Edmond Saglio: Caelatura. In: Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines. Volume 1, 2. Hachette, Paris 1887, pp. 778-809 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Entry on the website of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
  4. ^ Base Léonore: Entry on Edmond Saglio .
personal data
SURNAME Saglio, Edmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian, classical archaeologist and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1911
Place of death Paris