Félix Marie Charles Texier (22 August 1802, Versailles – 1 July 1871, Paris) was a French historian, architect and

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. Texier published a number of significant works involving personal travels throughout Asia Minor and the Middle East. These books included descriptions and maps of ancient sites, reports of regional geography and geology, descriptions of art works and architecture, et al. Trained as an architect at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he was appointed inspector of public works in 1827. He conducted excavations of the port cities of

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Sociétés savantes de France In 1833 he was sent on an exploratory mission to Asia Minor, where, in 1834, he discovered ruins of the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusa. As a result of the expedition, he published the three-volume ''Description de l'Asie Mineure faite par ordre du Gouvernement français''. Later in the decade he participated in an expedition that took him to Armenia, Mesopotamia and Persia.1833 - Quondam
(biographical & bibliographical information) In 1840, he became deputy professor of archaeology at the Collège de France, and in 1845 relocated to Algeria as inspector general of public buildings. In 1855, he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Published works

* ''Asie mineure: description géographique, historique et archéologique des provinces et des villes de la Chersonnèse d'Asie'', 1862 – Asia Minor, geographical, historical and archaeological descriptions of its provinces and cities. * ''Description de l'Arménie et de la Perse, de la Mésopotamie'', 1842–45 – Description of Armenia, Persia and Mesopotamia. * ''Mémoires sur la Ville et le port de Fréjus'', 1847 – Memoirs on the city and port of Fréjus. * ''Édesse et ses monuments'', 1859 –

Edessa Edessa (; grc, Ἔδεσσα, Édessa) was an ancient city (''polis'') in Upper Mesopotamia, founded during the Hellenistic period by King Seleucus I Nicator (), founder of the Seleucid Empire. It later became capital of the Kingdom of Osroene ...

and its monuments. * ', 1864 – Translated into English and published as ''Byzantine architecture : illustrated by examples of edifices erected in the East during the earliest ages of Christianity'', London, (with

Richard Popplewell Pullan Richard Popplewell Pullan was an architect and brother-in-law of William Burges. He is known for his work in archaeology including the discovery of the Lion of Knidos. Life Pullan was born at Knaresborough on 27 March 1825. He was articled to Ri ...

), 1864.
''The principal ruins of Asia Minor''
London, (with Richard Popplewell Pullan), 1865.WorldCat Identities
(published works)

References

The American cyclopaedia
edited by George Ripley & Charles Anderson Dana * Parts of this article are based on a translation of text from the French Wikipedia, sources listed as: ** Texte extrait de Atlas topographique des villes de Gaule - 2 - Fréjus (Revue archéologique de Narbonaise) par L. Rivet, D. Brentchaloff, S. Roucole, S. Saulnier. (p. 23). ** Nouveau Larousse illustré, Dictionnaire universel encyclopédique, published under the editorship of

Claude Augé Claude Augé (; 31 October 1854 – 22 July 1924) was a French pedagogue, publisher, and lexicographer. Biography First a school master, he married a grand niece of Pierre Larousse's wife, joined the Librairie Larousse as bookkeeper in 1885 an ...

, Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1898 - 1907. {{DEFAULTSORT:Texier, Charles 1802 births 1871 deaths 19th-century French historians Historians of antiquity 19th-century French architects French archaeologists People from Versailles Academic staff of the Collège de France Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres French male non-fiction writers 19th-century French male writers Travelers in Asia Minor