ADOLPHE See also: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
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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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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
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In 1845 he established at See also:Paris a See also:special archaeological library, and at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time a manufactory of painted See also:glass
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In the same See also:year he was admitted to the See also:Legion of See also:Honour
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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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