Louis Carton
Louis Carton (born June 16, 1861 in Saint Omer , † December 23, 1924 in Paris ) was a French doctor and archaeologist who worked in Tunisia .
After attending the Lycée in Lille, Louis Carton studied medicine at the university there and obtained his doctorate in 1883. He then joined the French army as a military doctor and was transferred to Tunisia in 1886. Here, in addition to his work as a doctor, he developed a strong interest in archeology. He was first deployed in Gabès , and since 1888 in Souk-el-Arba . Here he started researching Bulla Regia . Stationed in Téboursouk since 1891 , he turned to the archaeological investigation of Thugga . After briefly returning to France, he had been deployed in Sousse since 1902 , where he again turned to his archaeological interests. He founded the Société archéologique de Sousse , examined the catacombs of ancient Hadrumetum and the sanctuary of the Tanit in El-Kenissia. In 1904 he moved to La Goulette , a suburb of Tunis , from where he devoted himself entirely to archaeological research in Carthage .
In 1901 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor , in 1918 an officer of the Legion of Honor, and in 1910 a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .
Web links
- Louis Carton , in the Annuaire de la France savante XVIIe – XXe on the website of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques
- Louis Carton , Legion of Honor documents; French National Archives website
- Louis-Charles Carton et l'archéologie soussienne
- Annie Krieger-Krynicki: Louis Carton at memoireafriquedunord.net
literature
- Charles-Victor Langlos: Éloge funèbre de M. Louis Carton, correspondant de l'Académie . In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1925, pp. 5-8 ( digitized version ).
- Clémentine Gutron: Carton, Louis . In: François Pouillon (ed.): Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française. Karthala, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-84586-802-1 , pp. 182-184.
- Alessandro Teatini: Louis Carton . In: Stefan Heid , Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology . Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , Vol. 1, pp. 284–285.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carton, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carton, Louis Benjamin Charles (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor and archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Omer |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1924 |
| Place of death | Paris |