Édouard Muller Ardaillon (4 May 1867 at Mazères in Ariège – 19 September 1926 at Oran in

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) was a French

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

, archaeologist and

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Career

After graduating from the Boys' Catholic College of Sainte-Marie in

Saint-André-de-Cubzac Saint-André-de-Cubzac (; oc, Sent Andreus de Cubzac) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in south-western France. Its inhabitants are called Cubzaguais. Population Notable residents Jacques-Yves Cousteau is buried ...

, he undertook a Bachelor of Arts. He was a scholar of the

lycée Louis-le-Grand The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on rue Saint-Jacques in central Paris. It was founded in the ...

from 1884 to 1887. In 1887, he enrolled in the

École Normale Supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, S ...

where he achieved the Agrégation in 1890; he then joined the

École française d'Athènes The French School at Athens (french: École française d’Athènes, EfA; el, Γαλλική Σχολή Αθηνών ''Gallikí Scholí Athinón'') is one of the seventeen foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. History ...

(graduated 1891). In 1897, he defended his thesis on the

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, the silver mines near

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, whose rich deposits and intense exploitation played a key role in the development of Athenian power in the classical period; it still remains a reference work on this subject. He also carried out excavations in the port of Delos and visited the

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, Ionia, Lydia and

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. In June 1894 he married a young Greek girl while he was in Athens, with whom he went on to have two children. From November 1896 he was in charge of a geography programme in the faculty of Arts at Lille, where he became chair of geography in 1899. Under his direction, the geography department of this university became important. His career received the encouragement and support of

Georges Perrot Georges Perrot (12 November 1832 – 30 June 1914) was a French archaeologist. He taught at the Sorbonne from 1875 and was director of the École Normale Supérieure from 1888 to 1902. In 1874 he was elected to the Academie des Inscriptions e ...

, director of l'École normale supérieure; Théophile Homolle, Director of the

, and

Charles Bayet Charles Marie Adolphe Louis Bayet (25 May 1849, Liège – 16 September 1918, Toulon) was a French historian, who was a specialist in Byzantine art. Biography From 1868 he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, then enlisted f ...

, rector of Lille university. In 1905 he became rector of the University of Besançon.Catherine Valenti, « Les membres de l'École française d'Athènes : étude d'une élite universitaire (1846-1992) », ''Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique'', 120-1, 1996, p.170 Finally, he was rector of the

University of Algiers The University of Algiers (Arabic:جامعة الجزائر – بن يوسف بن خـدة ), commonly called the Algiers 1 University, is a public research university located in Algiers, Algeria. It is the oldest and most prestigious universi ...

from 1908 until his death in 1926.

Selected publications

* 1893. "Rapport sur le tremblement de terre de Zante" (Report on the

Zante Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; el, Ζάκυνθος, Zákynthos ; it, Zacinto ) or Zante (, , ; el, Τζάντε, Tzánte ; from the Venetian form) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. Za ...

Earthquake), ''

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* 1896. "Rapports sur les fouilles du port de Delos" ''

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'' 20 (1):428-445
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* 1897. "Répartition des Chrétiens et des Musulmans dans l'île de Crète" (Division of Christians and Muslims on the Island of Crete) ''Annales de Géographie'' 6(27): 255–257. * 1898. ''Les mines du Laurion dans l’Antiquité'' (The Mines of Laurion in Antiquity) Thesis. * 1901. "Les principes de la géographie moderne" (The Principles of Modern Geography) ''Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Lille'' 35, 269–90. * 1902. ''Carte archéologique de l’île de Délos'' (Archaeological Map of the Island of Delos).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ardaillon, Edouard French hellenists French geographers French archaeologists École Normale Supérieure alumni Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni Academic staff of the University of Lille Nord de France Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Members of the French School at Athens People from Ariège (department) 1867 births 1926 deaths University of Algiers faculty