Joseph Alexandre Martigny
Joseph Alexandre Martigny (born April 22, 1808 in Sauverny (Ain) , † August 18, 1880 in Bâgé-le-Châtel ) was a French Catholic clergyman and Christian archaeologist .
He attended the minor seminary in Belley and the seminary in Bourg-en-Bresse and was ordained a priest in 1832. After various pastoral tasks and first attempts at writing, he became archpriest of Bâgé-le-Châtel in 1849. Initially, he was supposed to write articles on Christian archaeological topics for the Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines , but then in 1865 independently published the Dictionnaire des antiquités chrétiennes , the first lexical handbook of Christian archeology.
Publications (selection)
- Notice historique, liturgique et archéologique sur le culte de salute Agnès dans les premiers siècles . Paris 1847.
- De l'usage du Flabellum dans les liturgies antiques . In: Annales de l'Académie de Mácon 3, 1855, pp. 370–379.
- Des anneaux chez les premiers chrétiens . In: Annales de l'Académie de Mácon 4, 1857, pp. 85-119.
- De la representation d'Orphée sur les monuments chrétiens primitifs . In: Annales de l'Académie de Mácon 4, 1857, pp. 44-75.
- Étude archéologique sur l'agneau et le bon pasteur . In: Annales de l'Académie de Mácon 5, 1860, pp. 44-145.
- Dictionnaire des antiquités chrétiennes . Hachette, Paris 1865 ( digitized version ), 2nd edition 1877
literature
- Danielle Gourevitch : Un episode de l'Histoire du Dictionnaire des antiquités connu sous le nom de "Daremberg et Saglio": la publication du Dictionnaire des antiquités chrétiennes de l'abbé Martigny. In: Les archéologues et l'archéologie (= Caesarodunum 27). Tours 1993, pp. 79-95.
- Stefan Heid : Joseph-Alexandre Martigny. In: Stefan Heid, Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century . Volume 1, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , pp. 877-878.
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SURNAME | Martigny, Joseph Alexandre |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Catholic clergyman and Christian archaeologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1808 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sauverny (Ain) |
DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1880 |
Place of death | Bâgé-le-Châtel |