Félix Marie Charles Texier

Charles Felix Marie Texier ( born August 29, 1802 in Versailles, † July 1, 1871 in Paris) was a French traveler, archaeologist and architect.

Texier visited from 1823 the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris, where he studied architecture, and in 1827 building officer in Paris. On behalf of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1828 and 1829 he directed archaeological excavations in Fréjus and Ostia. After 1830 had been a guest at the Ishak Pasha Palace in today's Eastern border of Turkey, he reported, admiring its equipment.

In 1833 he was sent by the French Ministry of Culture to Asia Minor, traveled there in 1834 Phrygia, Cappadocia and Lycaonia, 1835, the west and south coasts and in 1836 took the road from Tarsus to Trebizond. In 1839 he traveled again with La Guiche and Labourdonnais, to Armenia, Persia and Mesopotamia and Asia Minor in 1842 again to the West Coast. He was since 1840 " professeur suppléant " of Archaeology at the Collège de France, on July 8, 1845, he was appointed " Inspecteur général des bâtiments civils " in Algeria appointed. He was secretary of the Geographical Society in Paris and in 1855 was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions. On his travels he published widely acclaimed reports in which he published descriptions and plans of ancient sites, inscriptions, works of art and historical monuments. He is considered the discoverer or first Western visitors to many historical cities, including the Hittite capital Hattusa (28 July 1834), which he held but for the Median Pteria.

Writings

• Asie mineure. Geographical location description, historique et Archaeological. Des provinces et des villes de la Chersonnése d' Asie ( = L' Univers Et Histoire De Tous Les Description Peuples C:. . Asie. ). Firmin Didot et al, Paris, 1862, from Google Books.
• Description de l' Arménie et de la Perse, de la Mésopotamie. Géographie, geology, monuments anciens & modern, moeurs & Coutumes. 3 volumes ( 2 volumes, illustrated volume ). Firmin Didot, Paris 1842-1852.
• Edesse et ses monuments en Mésopotamie. Challamel, Paris 1859 ( offprint from: . Revue orientale et américaine Vol 1, No. 8, 1859, ZDB - ID 422367-6 ).
• With Richard Popplewell Pullan: L'Architecture byzantine. Ou recueil de monuments of the premiers temps du christianisme en Orient de recherches historiques et Precede archéologiques. Day & Son, London 1864; simultaneous English edition: Byzantine Architecture. Illustrated by examples of edifices erected in the East falling on the earliest ages of christianity with historical descriptions. Day & Son, London, 1864.
• With Richard Popplewell Pullan: The principal ruins of Asia Minor, illustrated and described. Day & Son, London 1865, online.