Dominique Vivant
1747
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1825
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France
native language: French
languages spoken, written or signed: French
occupation: art historian, Egyptologist, diplomat, travel writer, drawer, archaeologist, painter, politician, etcher, medalist, writer, graphic artist
award received: Officer of the Legion of Honour
position held: Director of French national museums, museum director
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (4 January 1747 – 27 April 1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. Denon was a diplomat for France under Louis XV and Louis XVI. He was appointed as the first Director of the Louvre museum by Napoleon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798–1801, and is commemorated in the Denon Wing of the modern museum and in the Dominique-Vivant Denon Research Center. His two-volume Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte ("Journey in Lower and Upper Egypt"), 1802, was foundational for modern Egyptology. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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