Salomon Reinach

Salomon Reinach ( born August 29, 1858 Paris suburb of Saint- Germain -en- Laye, † November 4, 1932 in Paris) was a French archaeologist, philologist, art historian and scholar of religion.

Life

Reinach was born into a wealthy Jewish banking family and is the brother of Théodore Reinach and Joseph Reinach. He attended the École Normale Supérieure, where he graduated with honors, and from 1879 the École Française in Athens. In the 1880s and early 1890s, he participated in numerous archaeological excavations, among others in Asia Minor ( Myrina ), the Aegean Sea, in Carthage and Odessa, which he partially published excavation reports. In the same years, he wrote a popular and award-winning textbooks of Greek and Latin. From 1886 he was at the National Museum of Antiquities active in Saint -Germain -en- Laye, from 1893 as curator ( Deputy Director ), 1902, he became director of the museum, which under his leadership became the most important French museum for Celtic and Roman finds. There he worked his museum's educational ideas from, was responsible for the scientific supervision and presented the collections over time in numerous books. Other publications offered comprehensive compilations of the preserved Greek and Roman statues ( 6 volumes, 1897-1930 ), painting of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ( 6 volumes, 1905-1923 ), Greek and Etruscan vase paintings, etc. His band some significant Gemmensammlungen ( 1895) showed him as one of the largest Gemmenspezialisten his time.

1890-1892 and 1895-1915, he taught at the École du Louvre, which he had co-founded, among others, with a popular lecture on Antiques national ( "National Antiquities" ). In 1902 he received a professorship. His lectures from 1902 /03 published in the following year under the title of Apollo: histoire générale des arts, one of the first richly illustrated art stories that underwent numerous editions. In 1903 he was co-editor of the Revue Archaeological and officer of the Legion of Honour. It was followed by numerous other publications until his death, including Cultes, mythes et religions, which appeared in 1905-1921 in 5 volumes and bringing Freud confronts in Totem and Taboo (1913). Since 1905 he was a regular member of the German Archaeological Institute.

In addition to his scientific activities, Reinach also continued actively for a Jewish causes. He was vice president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, who was then the most important Jewish organization in the world, co-founder of the Jewish Colonization Association, which supported the settlement of Jewish immigrants from Russia in different countries, and a member of the Société des Études Juives founded in 1880.

His enormous productivity is evidenced by the 1936 published bibliography of his works, which lists more than 6,000 articles and several hundred books. The diversity of his interests is reflected, among other things, that he 1900 Henry Charles Lea's History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages translated into French, but later also Augustine's City of God.

He is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris.

Bibliography

• Orpheus. General History of Religions, Vienna -Leipzig 1910.
• Apollo. General History of Art, Leipzig 1911.