Antoine Émile Ernest Desjardins (30 September 1823 – 22 October 1886) was a French historian,

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

and archaeologist. He was a younger brother of historian Abel Desjardins (1814–1886). In 1856 he began teaching classes in Latin epigraphy at the

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in Paris, and from 1861 taught courses in geography at the

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. For several years he conducted archaeological research in Italy,

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and regions along the

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. In 1875, he became a member of the

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.Desjardins, Ernest Émile Antoine
Sociétés savantes de France In 1886, he was appointed professor of epigraphy and Roman antiquities at the

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...

Selected works

* ''Atlas géographique de l'Italie ancienne, composé de sept cartes et d'un dictionnaire de tous les noms qui y sont contenus'', 1852 – Geographical atlas of ancient Italy. * ''Essai sur la topographie du Latium'', 1854 – Essay on the topography of

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. * ''Le Pérou avant la conquête espagnole, d'après les principaux historiens originaux'', 1858 –

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before the Spanish conquest, etc. * ''Publication des oeuvres complètes de Bartolomeo Borghesi'', 1861 – Publication on the complete works of

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. * ''Le grand Corneille, historien'', 1862 – On Pierre Corneille. * ''Aperçu historique sur les embouchures du Rhône, travaux anciens et modernes'', 1866 – Historical overview on the mouth of the

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, ancient and modern works. * ''Les Juifs de Moldavie'', 1867 – The Jews of

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. * ''Rapport sur les deux ouvrages de bibliographie américaine de M. Henri Harrisse'', 1867 – Report on two American bibliographical works of

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. * ''Géographie de la Gaule d'après la Table de Peutinger'', 1869 – Geography of Gaul according to the

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. * ''Rhône et Danube. Nouvelles observations sur les fosses Mariennes et le canal du Bas-Rhône'', 1870. – The Rhône and Danube. New observations on the Fosses Mariennes and the Bas-Rhône canal. * ''Géographie historique et administrative de la Gaule romaine'', (with

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) 1876 – Historical and administrative geography of

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published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Desjardins, Ernest 1823 births 1886 deaths Collège de France faculty French geographers French archaeologists 19th-century French historians French epigraphers