Émile Étienne Guimet

Émile Étienne Guimet

Émile Étienne Guimet (June 26, 1836 - 1918) was a French industrialist, traveler and connoisseur.

He was born at Lyon and succeeded his father in the direction of his "artificial ultramarine" factory. He also founded the Musée Guimet, which was first located at Lyon in 1879 and was handed over to the state and transferred to Paris in 1885.

Devoted to travel, he was in 1876 commissioned by the minister of public instruction to study the religions of the Far East, and the museum contains many of the fruits of this expedition, including a fine collection of Japanese and Chinese porcelain and many objects relating not merely to the religions of the East but also to those of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.

He wrote "Lettres sur l'Algerie" (1877) and "Promenades japonaises" (1880), and also some musical compositions, including a grand opera, "Tai-Tsoung" (1894).


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