Participated in excavations in Greece and Egypt and published works on the Gauls
Notable work
L'Égypte préhistorique
Adolphe Joseph Reinach (12 January 1887 – 30 August 1914) was a French
archaeologist and
Egyptologist who participated in excavations in Greece and Egypt and published works on the
Gauls.
Working in Egypt for the Société française des fouilles archéologiques with Raymond Weill in 1910–1911, he discovered the
Coptos Decrees in the temple of
Min at
Coptos.[1][2][3]
Biography
Adolphe Reinach was born on 12 January 1887 in the
8th arrondissement of Paris, the son of the archaeologist
Joseph Reinach (1856-1921) and his wife Henriette-Clémentine Reinach (1866-1918).
Adolphe did numerous travels around the Mediterranean and consequently studied at the
French School at Athens from 1909 until 1911. He participated in excavations in
Thasos and then proposed to excavate the site of
Qift in Egypt for the
fr:Société française d'archéologie. After securing the necessary funds in 1910, he directed the works in Qift with Raymond Weill and André Martinaud, who documented the excavations with numerous photographs. It is during this time that Adolphe Reinach uncovered the
Coptos Decrees dating back to the end of the
Old Kingdom and
First Intermediate Period. A number of the artefacts unearthed by Reinach are now housed in the Musée Guimet and
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, both in Lyon.
With the onset of the
First World War, Adolphe Reinach was mobilised. A
lieutenant of
Cuirassiers in the
46e régiment d'infanterie in the
French Army, he was killed in
Fossé in the Ardennes soon after the beginning of the war, at the end of August 1914.[4] Reinach had married Marguerite Dreyfus, daughter of
Mathieu Dreyfus and niece of
Alfred Dreyfus, and had a son, Jean-Pierre Reinach (1915–1942), born after his father's death. Jean-Pierre was killed during the
Second World War, at the same age as his father was during the First.
Adolphe Reinach: Voyageurs et pèlerins dans l'Égypte gréco-romaine, Bulletin de la Société archéologique d'Alexandrie, Société de publications égyptiennes, 1910.
Adolphe Reinach: Égyptologie et histoire des religions, Imprimerie F. Paillart, 1913.
Salomon Reinach, Paul Milliet, Adolphe Reinach: Recueil Milliet; textes grecs et latins relatifs à l'histoire de la peinture ancienne publiés, traduits et commentés, sous le patronage de l'Association des études grecques, Vol 1., 1921, new edition 2013, HardPress Publishing,
ISBN978-1314398045. See also [5]
Victor Chapot, Adolphe Reinach, Gaston Colin: L'Hellénisation du monde antique: leçons faites à l'École des Hautes Études Sociales, (1914), Kessinger Publishing, new edition 2010,
ISBN978-1168124715.
Adolphe Reinach: La Question crétoise : vue de Crète, Paris : Geuthner; 1st Edition (1910).
Adolphe Reinach: Les têtes coupées et les trophées en Gaule, E. Champion, Paris 1913.
Adolphe Reinach: Divinités gauloises au serpent, E. Leroux, 1911.
Notes
^Raymond Weill: Koptos. Relation sommaire des travaux exécutés par MM. A. Reinach et R. Weill pour la Société française des Fouilles Archéologiques (campagne de 1910), ASAE 11, 1911, pp. 97-141.
^Raymond Weill: Les décrets royaux de l'ancien empire égyptien trouvés à Koptos en 1910 ; communication lue à la séance du 27 janvier 1911, in: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 55e année, N. 3, 1911. pp. 268-275,
available online.
^Adolphe Reinach: Catalogue des Antiquites egyptiennes recueillies dans les Fouilles de Koptos, 1910-11, Journal of Hellenic Studies 35:157 (1915).
^Henri Hubert: Nécrologie: Adolphe-Joseph Reinach, Revue Celtique 37 (1917–1919): pp. 411–413,
available online
^Adolphe Reinach (éd.), Recueil Milliet. Textes grecs et latins relatifs à l'histoire de la peinture ancienne, 1, Paris, 1921 (
en ligne); nouv. éd. complète par Agnès Rouveret, Paris, 1985 (repr. 1991),
ISBN2-8658-9013-9.
References
Biography of
Adolf Reinach, German philosopher and family member of Adolphe Reinach. The biography mentions Aldolphe Reinach
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