Théodore Reinach
French archaeologist (1860-1928)
Théodore Reinach (French pronunciation: [ʁɛ.nak], 3 July 1860 – 28 October 1928) was a French archaeologist, mathematician, lawyer, papyrologist, philologist, epigrapher, historian, numismatist, musicologist, professor, and politician.
Academic career
Educated at the Lycée Condorcet, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, and the École des Sciences Politiques, Reinach had a brilliant career as a scholar. He practiced law in Paris from 1881 to 1886. He then devoted himself to numismatics. He became chair in ancient numismatics at the Collège de France and was a director of various journals. In 1916, he was awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society and in 1917, during World War I, he worked on assignment in the United States.
He wrote important works on the ancient kingdoms of Asia Minor: Trois royaumes de l'Asie Mineure: Cappadoce, Bithynie, Pont (1888), Mithridate Eupator (1890); Numismatique Ancienne: Trois Royaumes De L'asie Mineure: Cappadoce–Bithynie–Pont (Paris), and also a critical edition and translation with Henri Weil of Pseudo-Plutarch's On Music; and an Histoire des Israélites depuis la ruine de leur indépendance nationale jusqu'à nos jours (2nd ed., 1901).
From 1888 to 1897, he edited the Revue des études grecques.
He received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Dublin in June 1902.
Reinach was president of the Société française de musicologie (French association of musicologists) in 1928.
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