Salomon Reinach

1858 - 1932

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country of citizenship: France

native language: French

languages spoken, written or signed: French

educated at: Lycée Condorcet, École Normale Supérieure, French School at Athens

occupation: hellenist, historian, art historian, anthropologist, archaeologist

award received: Officer of the Legion of Honour

student of: Paul Foucart, Henri Weil

Salomon Reinach (29 August 1858 – 4 November 1932) was a French archaeologist, religious historian and was a major figure in the Franco-Jewish establishment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was vice president of the most important contemporary Jewish organization, the Alliance Israelite Universelle, and a founder of the Jewish Colonization Association. Source: Wikipedia (en)