Amable Audin (1899–1990) was a French archaeologist. He specialized in studying the Roman city of

Lugdunum Lugdunum (also spelled Lugudunum, ; modern Lyon, France) was an important Roman city in Gaul, established on the current site of Lyon. The Roman city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus, but continued an existing Gallic settlem ...

, known in modern times as

Lyon, France Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of th ...

Biography

Born in Lyon on July 25, 1899, Audin had a passion for archeology from a young age. He took part in his first dig at 20 years old. In 1952, he succeeded

Pierre Wuilleumier Pierre Wuilleumier (1 January 1904 – 20 November 1979) was a 20th-century French scholar, normalian, professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne and archaeologist. Biography Pierre Wuilleumier held the chair of National Antiqu ...

in directing the dig at the Roman archeological site of Fourviere, and found several major monuments in the ancient Roman city of Lugdunum (Lyon) including the

Odeon of Lyon The Odeon of Lyon (french: Odéon antique de Lyon) is a small ancient Roman theatre (an odeon) near the summit of the Fourvière hill in Lyon, France. It forms a pair with the Ancient Theatre of Fourvière, one of only two such pairs in Gaul ( ...

, Cybel Sanctuary, and the Amphitheater of the Three Gauls. Audin also made multiple fortuitous discoveries in the districts of

Vaise Vaise is a neighborhood of the City of Lyon (France), located along the Saône The Saône ( , ; frp, Sona; lat, Arar) is a river in eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Rhône, rising at Vioménil in the Vosges department and jo ...

and the fifth arrondissement of Lyon. In some cases, his notes are the only documentation of sites later destroyed as the city grew. In 1956 he published ''La topographie de Lugdunum'', which has been updated many times. In 1968 he was the first to observed a section of a Roman rampart, which in 2012 was confirmed to be part of the ''Murus Gallicus'' of Lyon. As the conservator of many Gallo-Roman artifacts from Lyon, he convinced the mayor Louis Pradel to construct a museum to house them. The Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière (known today as the Lugdunum Museum) opened in 1975 with Audin as its first conservator. He was a member of The Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts of Lyon. He died in Lyon on January 25, 1990.

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1899 births 1990 deaths French archaeologists Place of birth missing 20th-century French archaeologists {{France-scientist-stub