Adolphe Joseph Reinach was a French archaeologist and Egyptologist who participated in excavations in Greece and Egypt and published works on the Gauls.
Occupation
hellenist, archaeologist, classical scholar, historian
Adolphe Joseph Reinach (12 January 1887 – 30 August 1914) was a French archaeologist and Egyptologist who participated in excavations in Greece and Egypt and published works on the Gauls.
Working in Egypt for the Société française des fouilles archéologiques with Raymond Weill in 1910–1911, he discovered the Coptos Decrees in the temple of Min at Coptos.
Biography
Adolphe Reinach was born on 12 January 1887 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, the son of the archaeologist Joseph Reinach (1856-1921) and his wife Henriette-Clémentine Reinach (1866-1918).
