Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand (June 11, 1820 – 1902) was a French archaeologist who was a native of Rennes. He was the son of physician Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand (1795-1831) and elder brother to mathematician Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822-1900).

Bertrand studied at Ecole Normale Superieure de la rue d'Ulm, and after a three-year expedition to Babylon he became a member of the French School at Athens in 1849. From 1851 to 1857 he was a professor of rhetoric at Rennes.

Bertrand was a pioneer of Gallic and Gallo-Roman archaeology, and was involved in the archaeological dig at Alise-Sainte-Reine. In 1867 he was founder of the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale (Museum of National Antiquities) in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and was its director until his death in 1902.

In 1882 he became a professor of archaeology at the Ecole du Louvre, and was also an editor of Revue Archeologique and a member of Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

[edit] Selected writings

• Études de mythologie et d'archéologie grecques d'Athène à Argos, 1858
• Archéologie celtique & gauloise, 1876
• Archéologie celtique et gauloise, 1889
• La Gaule avant les Gaulois, 1891
• Les Celtes dans les vallees du Po et du Danube, 1894

[edit] References

• This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia.
• Open Library List of publications by author