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| Auguste Audollent | |
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| Name | Auguste Audollent |
| Birth date | 6 August 1864 |
| Birth place | Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France |
| Death date | 22 January 1943 |
| Death place | Paris, France |
| Occupation | Historian, Epigrapher, Archaeologist, Archaeologist of Ancient Rome |
| Nationality | French |
Auguste Audollent was a French historian, epigrapher, and archaeologist noted for studies of Roman provincial administration, Latin inscriptions, and antiquarian collections. He produced influential catalogues and monographs that informed research in Roman law, archaeology, numismatics, and papyrology. Audollent's work intersected with major scholarly institutions and contemporaries across Europe, shaping early 20th-century approaches to epigraphy and prosopography.
Born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, Audollent undertook classical studies in France and trained at the École normale supérieure and the École française de Rome. He studied Latin and Greek under professors associated with the Collège de France, the Université de Paris, and the École pratique des hautes études. During his formative years he engaged with collections at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Musée du Louvre, and the archives of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. His education placed him among networks connecting to the Institut de France, the Société des Antiquaires de France, and scholars from the British Museum and the Vatican Library.
Audollent served in roles tied to the École française de Rome and contributed to the Bulletin épigraphique and journals of the Société archéologique circles. He held affiliations with the Bibliothèque nationale de France and lectured at institutions linked to the Université de Paris (Sorbonne), interacting with contemporaries associated with the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, the Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, and the Société française de numismatique. His professional correspondence and collaborations reached scholars at the German Archaeological Institute, the Real Academia de la Historia, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi e Italici, and the American Academy in Rome.
Audollent authored monographs and catalogues influential in epigraphy and Roman studies, including cataloguing inscriptions and commenting on papyri, coins, and legal texts. He published articles in the Revue archéologique, the Journal des Savants, and the Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. His writings engaged topics related to Roman law, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire, and provincial administration across provinces such as Gallia Narbonensis, Provincia, Africa Proconsularis, and Asia. He analysed artefacts held in the Musée du Louvre, the Musée des Antiquités Nationales, and collections at the British Museum and the Vatican Museums. His work referenced and debated readings of texts and inscriptions by scholars including Theodor Mommsen, Wilhelm Dittenberger, Giuseppe Levi, Eduard Meyer, and Salomon Reinach.
Audollent advanced methods in epigraphic editing, prosopography, and the interpretation of funerary inscriptions, municipal decrees, and imperial rescripts. His studies intersected with research on the Notitia Dignitatum, the Codex Theodosianus, and the administration of military units such as cohorts and legions noted in inscriptions. He contributed to debates on Roman colonization in regions like Hispania Tarraconensis, Lusitania, and Gallia Lugdunensis, and to understanding magistracies, priesthoods, and municipal institutions of cities including Arelate, Lugdunum, Massilia, and Ravenna. Audollent's analyses informed numismatic interpretation related to coin issues of emperors such as Augustus, Trajan, Hadrian, and Constantine the Great, and his epigraphic corpora were used by researchers at the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, the Deutsche Archäologische Institut, and the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem.
Audollent was recognized by bodies including the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and received invitations to present at meetings of the Société des Antiquaires de France and the Congrès International d'Archéologie Classique. His scholarship was cited by contemporaries in works published by the Royal Irish Academy, the Real Academia Española, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and journals such as the American Journal of Archaeology and the Année épigraphique. He was associated with honors and memberships that linked him to institutions like the Institut de France and national academies in Italy, Germany, and Spain.
Audollent lived in Paris where he pursued research using holdings at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the archives of the Musée du Louvre. He maintained correspondence with European and American scholars, contributing to international exchanges involving the Vatican Library, the British Museum, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. He died in Paris in 1943 during the period of World War II, leaving a corpus of published notes and unpublished papers consulted by later historians of Antiquity, epigraphers, and archaeologists.
Category:French historians Category:French epigraphers Category:1864 births Category:1943 deaths