Alexandre Bertrand

Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand (June 11, 1820 - 1902) was a French archaeologist who was a native of Rennes. He was the son of physician Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand (1795-1831) and elder brother to mathematician Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822-1900).

Bertrand studied at Ecole Normale Superieure de la rue d'Ulm, and after a three-year expedition to Babylon he became a member of the French School at Athens in 1849. From 1851 to 1857 he was a professor of rhetoric at Rennes.

Bertrand was a pioneer of Gallic and Gallo-Roman archaeology, and was involved in several important archaeological digs, including the excavation at Alise-Sainte-Reine. In 1867 he was founder of the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale (Museum of National Antiquities) in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and was its director until his death in 1902.

In 1882 he became a professor of archaeology at the Ecole du Louvre, and was also an editor of "Revue Archeologique" and a member of Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

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