Robert Amy

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Robert Amy (born February 1, 1904 in Paris ; died March 18, 1986 in Orange ) was a French architect , building researcher and classical archaeologist .

As a young architect with a state diploma (Diplômé par le gouvernement) , he joined the French archaeological mission in Palmyra in 1931 . There he met Henri Seyrig , "Directeur général des Antiquités de Syrie et du Liban" in Beirut , with whom he was from now on in deep friendship. The greatest challenge of his entire career awaited Amy in Palmyra: the uncovering and restoration of the Baal shrine as well as the construction survey and scientific processing of the associated temple. Amy devoted himself to this task from 1935 to 1945, the result of which he presented in 1968 with the table volume and in 1975 with the text volume Temple de Bêl à Palmyre . But he was also involved in other projects during this time: the restoration of the monumental arch of honor in Palmyra, the investigations of the tomb of Elahbel and the hypogeum of Iarhai, which he carried out together with Henri Seyrig. As the architect of the High Commissioner, he was also entrusted with work on Christian churches in Syria , Islamic monuments in Aleppo and buildings from all eras in Syria and Lebanon . But his own interest was in Roman architecture , in particular in Roman temple construction . Based on the investigation of the temple in Dmeir in southern Syria , he extended his research to twenty other Roman temples in southern Syria, Lebanon and Transjordan ; He published the results of this research in 1950.

After the end of World War II , Robert Amy returned to France and established himself as an architect in Orange. When the offices for ancient architecture were established at the Center national de la recherche scientifique in 1958 , he returned to building research in an official position, first as maître , then as research director. The position enabled him to take part in research on the most important Roman monuments in France. So he made the construction recordings of the Arch of Orange , the mausoleum of the Julier in Glanum , the Arch of Glanum - all contributions of considerable scientific importance. Significant work was also carried out on the Porte Noire in Besançon or the Roman tower of Vesunna, today's Périgueux . Together with Pierre Gros, he published the two-volume monograph on the Maison Carrée in Nîmes , one of the best-preserved temples of the Roman Empire . This collaboration resulted in a work that, according to Burkhardt Wesenberg, in his review at the time, put “knowledge of the Maison Carrée on a new basis” and made “an important contribution to research into Roman architectural decoration”.

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Ernest Will : Robert Amy (1904-1986). In: Syria. Volume 64, 1987, pp. 149-150 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

  1. ^ Robert Amy: Temples à escaliers. In: Syria. Volume 27, 1950, pp. 82-136 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Burkhardt Wesenberg in his review: Gnomon . Volume 55, 1983, pp. 155–159, here p. 159 ( PDF; 1.1 MB )
personal data
SURNAME Amy, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect, building researcher and classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1986
Place of death orange