Everything about Charles Simon Clermont-ganneau totally explained
Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (
February 19,
1846–
February 15,
1923), was a noted
French Orientalist.
Biography
Clermont-Ganneau was born in
Paris, son of a
sculptor of some repute. After an education at the
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, he entered the
diplomatic service as
dragoman to the
consulate at
Jerusalem, and afterwards at
Constantinople. He laid the foundation of his reputation by his discovery (in 1870) of the
stele of Mesha (Moabite Stone), which bears the oldest
Semitic inscription known.
In
1874 he was employed by the British government to take charge of an archaeological expedition to
Palestine, and was subsequently entrusted by his own government with similar missions to
Syria and the
Red Sea. He was made
chevalier of the
Legion of Honour in
1875. After serving as vice-consul at
Jaffa from 1880 to 1882, he returned to Paris as
secrétaire interpréte for oriental languages, and in 1886 was appointed consul of the first class. He subsequently accepted the post of diiector of the École des Langues Orientales and professor at the
Collège de France.
In
1889 he was elected a member of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, of which he'd been a correspondent since 1880. In 1896 he was promoted to be
consul-general, and was
minister plenipotentiary in 1906. He was the first in England to expose the famous forgeries of
Hebrew texts offered to the
British Museum by
MW Shapira in 1883, and in 1903 he took a prominent part in the investigation of the so-called
Tiara of Saitaferne. This tiara had been purchased by the
Louvre for 400,000
francs, and exhibited as a genuine antique. Much discussion arose as to the perpetrators of the fraud, some believing that it came from southern
Russia. It was agreed, however, that the whole object, except perhaps the band round the tiara, was of modern manufacture.
Works
Clermont-Ganneau's chief publications, besides a number of contributions to journals, were:
- Palestine inconnue (1886)
- Etudes d'archéologie orientale (1880, etc.)
- Les Fraudes archéologiques (1885)
- Receuil d'archéologie orientale (1885, etc.)
- Album d'antiquites orientales (1897, etc.)
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