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Jean-Frédéric Waldeck
Jean Frederic Maximilien de Waldeck (March 16, 1766 (?) - April 30, 1875) was a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. ...
Archaeology the scientific study of the material remains of past human life and activities.
Archaeology proper began with an interest in the Greeks and Romans and first developed in 18th-century Italy with the excavations of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The development of scientific archaeology in 19th-century Europe from the antiquarianism and treasure collecting of the previous three centuries was due to three things: a geological revolution, an antiquarian revolution, and the propagation of the doctrine of evolution.
From 1887 to 1925 he was professor of archaeology at Oxford, where he was instrumental in building up the archaeology department and...
He taught at the Collège de France and was director of archaeology in Egypt, where he established the French School of Oriental Archaeology at Cairo and...
He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1875, director of the École normale supérieure, Paris, from 1888 to 1902, and permanent secretary of the Academy of...
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