Jean-Joseph-Antoine-Marie de Witte

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Baron Jean-Joseph-Antoine-Marie de Witte (born February 24, 1808 in Antwerp , † July 30, 1889 in Paris ) was a Belgian classical archaeologist , epigraphist and numismatist .

Jean-Joseph-Antoine-Marie de Witte was the son of Jean-Joseph de Witte and Marie-Thérèse-Antoinette-Joséphine Herry. From the age of thirteen lived and worked in Paris. Together with Charles Lenormant , he wrote the four-volume work Élite des monuments céramographiques between 1837 and 1861 . In 1837/38 he published Descriptions de vases peints et de bronzes antiques provenant des fouilles de l'Étrurie . In addition, he wrote numerous articles, including in the publications of the later German Archaeological Institute , of which he was also a full member. He was on friendly terms with Otto Jahn after his stay in Paris. At the suggestion of Theodor Panofka and August Böckhs , de Witte became a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences together with Lenormant in 1845 . From 1840 he was a corresponding member, since 1851 a full member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique , in 1844 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , in 1865 a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and in 1871 a foreign member Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . As a numismatist, de Witte wrote the first comprehensive catalog on the coinage of the rulers of the Gallic Empire in 1868 with his work Recherches sur les Empereurs qui ont règné dans les Gaules .

literature

  • List of publications in: Revue numismatique 7 (1889), pp. 597–601.
  • Charles Barbier de Meynard: Éloge funèbre de M. le baron Jean-Joseph de Witte. In: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1889, pp. 250-252 digitized
  • Edmond Marchal: Le baron Jean-Joseph-Antoine-Marie de Witte. In: Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux Arts de Belgique 1907, pp. 47-138 PDF
  • Christa Kirsten (ed.): The ancient studies at the Berlin Academy. Nominations for the admission of members from FA Wolf to G. Rodenwaldt. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985 ( Studies on the History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , Volume 5), p. 75.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notice on Jean-Joseph-Antoine-Marie De Witte (Annuaire de 1907) . Retrieved April 13, 2020
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 263.
personal data
SURNAME Witte, Jean-Joseph-Antoine-Marie de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witte, Jean-Joseph-Antoine-Marie Baron de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian classical archaeologist, epigraphist and numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1889
Place of death Paris