Baron Jean Joseph Antoine Marie de Witte (24 February 1808,
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, - 29 July 1889, Paris) was a Belgian archeologist,
epigraphist
Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...
and
numismatist
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He collaborated with
François Lenormant
François Lenormant (17 January 1837 – 9 December 1883) was a 19th-century French Hellenist, Assyriologist and archaeologist.
Biography Early life
Lenormant's father, Charles Lenormant, distinguished as an archaeologist, numismatist and Egypt ...
in founding the
Gazette archéologiqueGazette archéologique
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The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...
.
External links
Biography and bibliography of Jean Joseph Antoine Marie de Witte by the Chevalier Edmond Marchal
References
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1808 births
1889 deaths
Scientists from Antwerp
Belgian archaeologists