Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé

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Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé

Charles-Jean-Melchior , Count (later Marquis) Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé (born October 18, 1829 in Paris , † November 10, 1916 ibid) was a French diplomat and archaeologist.

Life

Melchior de Vogüé was a son of the Marquis Léonce de Vogüé and his wife Henriette de Machault d'Arnouville. After graduating from the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr and the École polytechnique , Melchior de Vogüé was appointed attaché to the French embassy in Saint Petersburg by Foreign Minister Alexis de Tocqueville in 1849 . Alexandre Dumas reports that he threw himself at a bear during a hunt and thereby saved the life of a Moujik, as the serf farmers were called.

In 1855 he married his first cousin Adélaïde Marguerite de Vogüé, daughter of Charles Louis de Vogüé, with whom he had two daughters, namely Marie-Caroline (1856-1910) and Marthe (1860-1923). In his second marriage he married Béatrix Claire des Monstiers-Mérinville in 1866, with whom he had two sons: Louis Antoine Melchior (1868-1948) and Adalbert.

On the occasion of the arrest of his father, who was a deputy at the time, in 1852 in connection with the coup d'état of December 2, 1851 , Melchior resigned from his diplomatic duties and dealt only with archaeological and historical topics. He conducted investigations in Syria and Palestine in 1853 and 1854.

In 1868 he was elected a free member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . He worked on various journals, such as the Revue archéologique , the Revue numismatique , the Journal asiatique and the Bulletin des Antiquaires. His publications included Les églises de la Terre Sainte (1860), Le Temple de Jérusalem (1864), La Syrie Centrale (1865–1877).

The later President Adolphe Thiers appointed him ambassador to Constantinople . From 1875 to 1879 he was ambassador to Vienna . After Mac Mahon had submitted his resignation on January 30, 1879, he again renounced all diplomatic offices and took care of his scientific interests, but also to his charitable tasks and his property, but also dealt with the Maréchal de Villars and the epoch of Louis XIV and the history of his family in Vivarais .

He traveled mainly to Syria and the Holy Land , but also to Cyprus , to carry out excavations there and to bring finds to Paris. He also published numerous articles on this topic, as well as on Palmyra , Carthage and numismatics . Two publications were also produced against the background of his diplomatic mission in Russia. Most recently he dealt with Jerusalem.

Melchior de Vogüé ran a number of charitable and Catholic undertakings, such as the Office central des œuvres charitables , the œuvre de la propagation de la foi , the œuvre des écoles d'Orient , but also the Société de secours aux blessés militaires , with the latter being the case Organization was one of the founding members and became its president in 1904. The three organizations that gave rise to the Croix-Rouge française , of which he was president from 1903 to 1916, go back to his initiative .

From 1877 he headed the magazine Le Correspondant . When his father died on June 25, 1877, he assumed the title of Marquis de Vogüé . Like him, he also chaired the Société des agriculteurs de France from 1896. In 1901 he was accepted into the Académie française , for whose deceased Secrétaire perpétuel he wrote an obituary in 1913. Initially from 1893 administrator of the Compagnie des Glaces et Produits chimiques of Saint-Gobain , he became its president in 1901. From 1908 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In addition, he published Fragments d'un journal de voyage en Orient. Côtes de la Phénicie (1855), Note sur quelques inscriptions recueillies à Palmyre (1855) and Notes d'épigraphie araméenne (1856).
  2. ↑ Les Églises de la Terre Sainte , Librairie de Victor Didron, 1860.
  3. ↑ Le Temple de Jérusalem, monographie du Haram-ech-Chérif, suivie d'un Essai sur la topographie de la Ville-sainte, par le Cte ​​Melchior de Vogüé , Noblet et Baudry, 1864.
  4. ↑ Syrie centrale. Architecture civile et religieuse du Ier au VIIe siècle , J. Baudry, 1865–1877.
  5. ↑ Madame de Maintenon et le maréchal de Villars. Correspondance inédite (1881); Mémoires du maréchal de Villars, publiés, d'après le manuscrit original, pour la Société de l'histoire de France , et accompagnés de correspondances inédites (1884–1904); Villars et l'électeur de Bavière Max-Emmanuel (1885); Villars d'après sa correspondance et des documents inédits (1888) and Notice sur l'hôtel de Villars (1904).
  6. ↑ Une famille vivaroise, histoires d'autrefois racontées à ses enfants , 1906, ND BiblioBazaar, 2011.
  7. ↑ Including Les Événements de Syrie (1860); Mémoire sur une nouvelle inscription phénicienne (1860); Notice sur un talent de bronze trouvé à Abydos (1862); Bulletin de l'uvre des pèlerinages en Terre-Sainte. Histoire, geography, ethnography et archeology biblique et religieuse (1863); Inscriptions araméennes et nabatéennes du Haouran (1864), Inscriptions hébraïque de Jérusalem (1864); L'Alphabet hébraïque et l'alphabet araméen (1865), but also about L'Islamisme et son fondateur (1865), then summing up Mélanges d'archéologie orientale (1868) and Six inscriptions phéniciennes d'Idalion (1875); Stèle de Yehawmelek, roi de Gebal (1875); Note on the forme du tombeau d'Eschmounazar (1880); La Stèle de Dhmêr (1885), Note sur une inscription bilingue de Tello et sur quatre intailles sémitiques (1887).
  8. ↑ Inscriptions palmyréniennes inédites. Un tarif sous l'Empire romain (1883)
  9. ↑ Note sur les nécropoles de Carthage (1889); Note sur une inscription punique trouvée par le P. Delattre à Carthage (1892); Vases carthaginois (1893).
  10. ↑ Monnaies et sceaux des croisades (1877) or Monnaies inédites des croisades (1880–1890), then again Monnaies inédites des croisades (1895–1905) and Monnaies juives (1895–1905).
  11. ↑ Le roman russe (10th ed. 1912); Trois épisodes de l'histoire de la Russie. Le fils de Pierre le Grand (1889).
  12. ↑ Jérusalem hier et aujourd'hui (1912).
  13. ↑ Thureau-Dangin (1913).
personal data
SURNAME Vogüé, Charles-Jean-Melchior de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melchior; Vogüé, de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1916
Place of death Paris