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ADOLPHE NAPOLEON DIDRON (1806-1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAPOLEON See also:DIDRON (1806-1867)  , See also:French archaeologist, was See also:born at Hautvillers, in the See also:department of See also:Marne, on the 13th of See also:March 18o6 . At first a student of See also:law, he began in 1830, by the See also:advice of See also:Victor See also:Hugo, a study of the See also:Christian See also:archaeology of the See also:middle ages . After visiting and examining the See also:principal churches, first of See also:Normandy, then of central and See also:southern See also:France, he was on his return appointed by See also:Guizot secretary to the See also:Historical See also:Committee of Arts and Monuments (1835); and in the following years he delivered several courses of lectures on Christian iconography at the Bibliotheque Royale . In 1839 he visited See also:Greece for the purpose of examining the See also:art of the Eastern See also:Church, both in its buildings and its See also:manuscripts . In 1844 he originated the Annales archeologiques, a periodical devoted to his favourite subject, which he edited until his See also:death . In 1845 he established at See also:Paris a See also:special archaeological library, and at the same See also:time a manufactory of painted See also:glass . In the same See also:year he was admitted to the See also:Legion of See also:Honour . His most important See also:work is the Iconographie chretienne, of which, however, the first portion only, Histoire de Dieu (1843), was published . It was translated into See also:English by E . J . Millington . Among his other See also:works may be mentioned the See also:Manuel d'iconographie chretienne grecqueet latine (1845), the Iconographie See also:des chapiteaux du palais ducal de Venise (1857), and the Manuel des objets de See also:bronze et d'orfevrerie (1859) .

He died on the 13th of See also:

November 1867 .

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