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Traveller / antiquarian · Collector

Albert Jean Gaudry

1827–1908 · France

Geologist. Worked with Amédée Damour.

Life and work

  1. 10 May 1853
    His arrival in Cyprus was announced to the Ottoman authorities (Sherif Pasha) by a letter of 10 May 1853; he came on behalf of French scientific bodies on the instruction of the Ministry of Agriculture.

    CyprusMarangou 2000, p. 39

  2. 1853
    With Amédée Damour made a geological and agricultural map study of the island; the two nevertheless acquired some ancient objects, which Marangou places among Louvre acquisitions by scholars.

    CyprusMarangou 2000, p. 51

Connections

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2.A. Gaudry (1862). “Géologie de l'île de Chypre”. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France 2, 149-314.