Salomon Reinach

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Salomon Reinach

Salomon Reinach (born August 29, 1858 in the Paris suburb of Saint-Germain-en-Laye , † November 4, 1932 in Paris ) was a French archaeologist, philologist , art historian and religious scholar.

Life

Reinach came from a wealthy Jewish banking family and is the brother of the archaeologist Théodore Reinach and Joseph Reinach (1856–1921). He studied at the École Normale Supérieure , which he graduated with honors, and from 1879 was a scholarship holder at the École française d'Athènes in Athens. In the 1880s and early 1890s he took part in numerous archaeological excavations, including in Asia Minor ( Myrina ), the Aegean , Carthage and Odessa , for which he published some excavation reports. In the same years he wrote popular and award-winning textbooks in Latin and Greek. From 1886 he worked at the Musée des Antiquités nationales in Saint-Germain-en-Laye , from 1893 as a curator (deputy director), in 1902 he became director of the museum, which under his direction became the most important French museum for Celtic and Roman finds. There he worked out his museum educational ideas, took care of the scientific supervision and presented the collections in numerous books over the years. Other publications offered comprehensive compilations of the surviving Greek and Roman statues (6 volumes, 1897–1930), painting of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (6 volumes, 1905–1923), Greek and Etruscan vase paintings, etc. His volume on some important collections of gems ( 1895) showed him as one of the greatest gem specialists of his time.

From 1890 to 1892 and 1895 to 1915 he taught at the École du Louvre , which he had co-founded, including a popular lecture on Antiquités nationales (“National Antiquities”). In 1902 he received a professorship there. His lectures from 1902/03 were published the following year under the title Apollo: histoire générale des arts , one of the first richly illustrated art histories that saw numerous editions. In 1903 he became co-editor of the Revue archéologique and officer of the Legion of Honor . Numerous other publications followed until the end of his life, including Cultes, mythes et religions , which appeared in 5 volumes from 1905 to 1921 and which Sigmund Freud deals with in Totem and Tabu (1913). Since 1905 he was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and since 1911 a corresponding member of the British Academy .

In addition to his academic work, Reinach was also actively involved in Jewish matters. He was vice-president of the Alliance Israélite Universelle , the most important Jewish organization worldwide at the time, co-founder of the Jewish Colonization Association , which supported the settlement of Jewish emigrants from Russia in various countries, and a member of the Société des Études Juives, founded in 1880 .

His enormous productivity is evidenced by the bibliography of his works published in 1936, which lists over 6,000 articles and several hundred books. The diversity of his interests can be seen, among other things, in the fact that he translated Henry Charles Lea's History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages into French in 1900 , and later also Augustine 's De civitate dei .

He is buried in the Paris North Cemetery.

Publications (selection)

Répertoire de reliefs grecs et romains , published 1909.

Translated into German

  • Orpheus. General history of religions , Vienna-Leipzig 1910.
  • Apollo. General history of art , Leipzig 1911.

French

(in chronological order)

  • Manuel de philologie classique , Paris, Hachette, 1880; new two-volume edition, 1883–1884, ( vol. 1 ; vol. 2: Appendice online); updated edition 1907 ( online ).
  • Catalog du Musée impérial d'antiquités (1882)
  • Traité d'épigraphie grecque (1885)
  • Grammaire latine (1886)
  • L'Origine des Aryens, histoire d'une controverse (1892)
  • Epona, la déesse gauloise des chevaux (1895)
  • La Sculpture en Europe avant les influences gréco-romaines (1896)
  • Repertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine (1897–1930)
  • Répertoire des vases peints grecs et étrusques (1899–1900)
  • Les Chefs-d'œuvre du Musée du Louvre (1900)
  • Apollo: histoire générale des arts plastiques , professée à l'École du Louvre (1902–1903)
  • Recueil de têtes antiques idéales ou idéalisées , Gazette des Beaux-Arts, (1903)
  • Les Apôtres chez les anthropophages , conférences faites au Musée Guimet (1904)
  • Cultes, mythes et religions (1905–1923) (new edition Robert Laffont, 1996)
  • Répertoire de peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (1280-1580) (1906–1923)
  • Orpheus, Histoire générale des religions (1907, 1924 complete and extended new edition, Librairie d'éducation nationale, Alcide Picard, Paris, XXII, 644 p.) (Rééd. L'Harmattan, 2002)
  • Les religions à vol d'oiseau , Société Coopérative "Volksdrukkerij", Gand (1908)
  • Les religions à vol d'oiseau , Bibliothèque de propagande Bruxelles (1908–1909)
  • Repertoire de reliefs grecs et romains (1909)
  • Eulalie, ou Le grec sans larmes (1911)
  • Cornélie, ou Le latin sans pleurs (1912)
  • Sidonie, ou Le français sans peine (1913)
  • Repertoire de l'art quaternaire (1913)
  • Chronologie de la guerre (10 volumes, 1915–1919)
  • Histoire de la Révolution russe (1917)
  • Catalog illustré du Musée des antiquités nationales au château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1917–1921)
  • Repertoire de peintures grecques et romaines (1922)
  • Lettres à Zoé sur l'histoire des philosophies (3 volumes, 1926)
  • Glozel: la découverte, la controverse, les enseignements, avec vingt-trois modèles d'alphabets (1928)
  • Éphémérides de Glozel (1928–1930)
  • Amalthée - Mélanges d'Archéologie et d'Histoire (3 volumes, 1931)

literature

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ In 1896 his almost 700-page work Chroniques d'Orient appeared: Documents sur les fouilles et découvertes dans l'Orient hellénique de 1891 à 1895 ( online )
  2. ↑ In 1886 Grammaire latine appeared
  3. ↑ Eulalie ou le grec sans larmes . 6th edition 1911, online
  4. ↑ Pierres gravées des collections Marlborough et d'Orléans, des recueils d'Eckhel, Gori, Lévesque de Gravelle, Mariette, Millin, Stosch, réunies et rééditées avec un texte nouveau , online
  5. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a map at the main entrance to the cemetery shows the graves of around 60 prominent deceased, including those of Reinach
  7. ↑ a b c New edition Harmattan, 1995
personal data
SURNAME Reinach, Salomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French archaeologist, philologist, art historian and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Germain-en-Laye
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1932
Place of death Paris