René du Coudray de La Blanchère

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René Marie du Coudray de La Blanchère (born February 17, 1853 in Tours ; died May 30, 1896 in Paris ) was a French classical archaeologist . He set up the Antiquities Service in the French Protectorate in Tunisia and founded the Musée Alaoui , known since 1956 as the National Museum of Bardo .

Life

René du Coudray de La Blanchère was the illegitimate son of Pierre René Marie du Coudray de La Blanchère (born around 1822) and Marie Françoise Lefèvre (born around 1828). From 1894 he was authorized to use the name component Coudray on his own application .

From 1860, René de La Blanchère attended the Collège Sainte-Barbe , one of the oldest colleges in France. He continued his education at the elite school Lycée Louis-le-Grand , where he passed his baccalaureate in 1872 . In 1873 he began his studies at the elite university École normal supérieure in Paris, during which he worked in 1874 as a substitute teacher at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. From 1876 to 1878 - the year of his agrégation in history - he studied at the École pratique des hautes études . In the year of his agrégation, he and Clovis Lamarre published the volumes on the Netherlands and the United States of America for the series Les Pays étrangers et l'exposition de 1878 by Charles Delagrave on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878 .

Also in 1878 he became a member of the École française de Rome , of which he was a member until 1881. In Italy he investigated the Pontine Plain with its swamps, especially Terracina , and the Roman drainage system. Italy and its studies devoted to ancient topography occupied him until the end of the 1880s. As a proven expert on the subject, he was given the article cuniculus - ancient corridor and tunnel systems, especially for water management - for the renowned Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines . In the 1890s, he transferred the problems associated with water management to North Africa. To this day, his studies, especially on drainage in Italy, are fundamental and frequently cited.

He turned down an offer from the humanities faculty at the University of Poitiers in 1881 and instead went as a charge de cours to the Algerian École supérieure des beaux-arts and the French École supérieure des lettres in Algiers . After receiving his doctorate in Paris in 1883 - the subject of his dissertation was a historical treatise on the Mauritanian King Juba II - he was appointed professor of the geography of North Africa at the École supérieure des lettres in 1884 . He was released from his duties in this regard in 1885 to take up the post of director of the Antiquities Service in the French Protectorate in Tunisia . The following year, he was given responsibility for the protectorate's excavations and museums. In this function he founded the Musée Alaoui, known since 1956 as the National Museum of Bardo , in 1888 . In 1892 the libraries, archives and museums of Tunisia and Algeria were subordinated to him as Inspector General. He made the reorganization of the museums in Algeria his main task. With Paul Gauckler , he founded the Catalog du Musée Alaoui , which comprised many volumes and was completed in 1926.

Publications (selection)

  • De rege Juba, regis Jubae filio. Thorin, Paris 1883 ( digitized ).
  • Terracine. Essai d'histoire locale (= Bibliotheque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome. Volume 34). Thorin, Paris 1884 ( digitized version ).
  • Tombes en mosaic de Thabraca. Douze stèles votives du Musée du Bardo. Leroux, Paris 1897 ( digitized version ).
  • with Paul Gauckler : Catalog du Musée Alaoui. Volume 1. Leroux, Paris 1897 ( digitized ).

literature

  • Eve Gran-Aymerich: Les chercheurs de passé. Éditions du CNRS, Paris 2007, pp. 725–726
  • LA BLANCHÈRE Marie René MOULLIN du COUDRAY de in: Havelange Isabelle, Huguet Françoise, Lebedeff-Choppin Bernadette: Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique. Dictionnaire biographique 1802-1914 (= Histoire biographique de l''enseignement. Volume 11). Institut national de recherche pédagogique, Paris 1986, pp. 431–432.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Clovis Lamarre, René Marie du Coudray de La Blanchère: Les États-Unis et l'Exposition de 1878. Delagrave, Paris 1878 ( digitized version ); the same: Les Pays-Bas et l'Exposition de 1878. Delagrave, Paris 1878 ( digitized ).
  2. ↑ See for example René Marie du Coudray de La Blanchère: Le drainage profond des campagnes latines. In: Mélanges de l'école française de Rome. Volume 2, 1882, pp. 207-221 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ For example René Marie du Coudray de La Blanchère: Villes disparues - La Cività. In: Mélanges de l'école française de Rome. Volume 1, 1881, pp. 161-180 ( digitized version ); the same: Villes disparues - Conca. In: Mélanges de l'école française de Rome. Volume 5, 1885, pp. 81-95 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ René Marie du Coudray de La Blanchère: Cuniculus. In: Charles Daremberg , Edmond Saglio : Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines . Volume 1.2. Hachette, Paris 1887, pp. 1589–1594 ( digitized ).
  5. ^ René Marie du Coudray de La Blanchère: L'aménagement de l'eau et l'installation rurale dans l'Afrique ancienne. Imprimerie nationale, Paris 1895.
personal data
SURNAME La Blanchère, René Du Coudray de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Blanchère, René Marie Moullin du Coudray de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Tours
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1896
Place of death Paris