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Salomon Reinach

Salomon Reinach, born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ( Seine-et-Oise ) on 29 August 1858 and died in Boulogne-Billancourt ( Seine ) on 4 November 1932 , is an archaeologist and a French specialist in the history of religions.

Summary

1 Biography
2 Major publications
3 Reference
4 Related articles
5 External Links

/ / Biography

Born into a family of German-Jewish banker (his brothers Joseph and Theodore will also be a brilliant career), he studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure before joining the French School of Athens in 1879. He is interested in philosophy , translated the Essay on the free will of Schopenhauer in 1877 before publishing Handbook of Classical Philology in 1880 and Latin Grammar in 1886.

Field archaeologist, he leads in the Mediterranean excavations that have a major impact to the scientific community, including Myrina near Smyrna , between 1880 and 1882, Kyme in 1881, the islands of Thasos , Imbros and Lesbos in 1882, Carthage and Meninx ( Djerba ) the following year, then to Odessa in 1893.

Appointed assistant to the Museum of National Antiquities at St. Germain-en-Laye , in 1887, it will be the assistant curator from 1893 to 1902, then the director, from 1902 until his death. He set up the museum, multiplies catalogs and inventories, directories and compiles on Greek and Roman statues, paintings of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and Greek vases and Etruscan.

Former House of Salomon Reinach, the edge of the terrace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

In 1896, he became a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres. The same year, he recommended the purchase for 200,000 gold francs by the Louvre of the tiara Saitapharnes which will prove to be a fake.

He created in 1902 during the general history of art at the Ecole du Louvre : twenty-five lessons, which will be subsequently published as the Apollo, he presents the evolution of art from the beginning until at the Exhibition of 1900. He shares the following year with Edmond Pottier as director of publication of the Archaeological Journal, one of the oldest French scientific periodicals.

He began his major work, Religion, Myths and Religions in 1905 and published in 1909 Orpheus, a large mural on the history of religions. These two books are frequently cited by Freud in Totem and Taboo.

His passion for archeology led him to consider the case of Glozel , where he began excavations in 1926 and 1927, before defending the authenticity of the site.

Ardent defender of the culture and rights of Jews, he is vice-president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle and member of the League of Jewish Studies.

Died at Boulogne, near Paris , in 1932 , he was buried in Montmartre cemetery.

Main publications

Directory of Greek and Roman reliefs, published in 1909

Handbook of Classical Philology, Paris, Hachette, 1880; New. ed., 1883-1884, 2 vols. ( vol. 1 , Vol. 2: Appendix online), ed. Update 1907 ( Online ).
Catalogue of the Imperial Museum of Antiquities (1882)
Treaty of Greek epigraphy (1885)
Latin Grammar (1886)
The Origin of the Aryans, History of controversy (1892)
Epona, the Gaulish goddess of horses (1895)
Sculpture in Europe before the influences of Greco-Roman (1896)
Directory of Greek and Roman statuary (1897-1930)
Directory of Greek and Etruscan vases (1899-1900)
Masterpieces from the Louvre Museum (1900)
Apollo: General History of Art, professed at the Ecole du Louvre (1902-1903)
Collection of antique heads ideal or idealized (1903)
The Apostles among cannibals, lectures at the Muse Guimet (1904)
Cults, myths and religions (1905-1923) (rd. Robert Laffont, 1996)
Directory of paintings of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1280-1580) (1906-1923)
Orpheus, General History of Religions (1907, 1924 new edition revised and expanded Library of Education, Alcide Picard, Paris, XXII, 644 p.) (rd. L'Harmattan, 2002)
Religions as the crow flies Cooperative "Volksdrukkerij", Ghent (1908)
Religions as the crow flies Library propaganda Brussels (1908-1909) reprint in 18 fascicles
Directory of Greek and Roman reliefs (1909)
Eulalie or Greek without tears (1911) (rd. L'Harmattan, 1995)
The Cornelia or Latin without Tears (1912) (rd. L'Harmattan, 1995)
Sidonie or French without penalty (1913) (rd. L'Harmattan, 1995)
Chronology of the War (10 volumes, 1915-1919)
History of the Russian Revolution (1917)
Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of National Antiquities in the castle of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1917-1921)
Directory of Greek and Roman paintings (1922)
Letters to Zoe about the history of philosophy (3 volumes, 1926)
Glozel: discovery, controversy, lessons, with twenty-three models of alphabets (1928)
Ephemeris Glozel (1928-1930)
Amalthea - Mixtures of Archaeology and History (3 volumes, 1931)

Reference

Robert Rey , 1932, "The Course of M. Salomon Reinach in Gallery Denon and Leonce Bndite courses at the Seminary of St. Sulpice, in L'Ecole du Louvre, 1882-1932, Library of the Ecole du Louvre, Paris, pp.101-108.

Family Reinach
Mythiste thesis for his role in challenging the historical existence of Jesus.

External Links

Herv Duchne, An Athenian, Salomon Reinach (1996) on the site of the University of Burgundy.
Another leaflet Herv Duchne on the site of the National Institute of History of Art , which also keeps an archive Salomon Reinach