Salomon Reinach

• Les tirés-à-parts de la bibliothèque Salomon Reinach

Le fonds des tirés-à-part de la bibliothèque S. Reinach (637 volumes reliés, soit plus de 6500 articles) présente une grande diversité quant au contenu. Ces publications internationales, écrites par des archéologues, des historiens, des épigraphistes et autres savants du XIXème siècle, adressées à Salomon Reinach, traitaient principalement d’archéologie et d’histoire ancienne mais aussi de littérature, d’éducation, de médecine, de droit législatif ou encore de politique. L’hétérogénéité de ce fonds témoigne d’une époque où la culture encyclopédique (scientifique, littéraire et politique) était encore la règle.
Ces tirés-à-part, sélectionnés et reliés par l’archéologue, sont également le reflet des relations personnelles qu’entretenait Salomon Reinach avec des savants du monde entier. Ils constituent, par ailleurs, une documentation très utile aujourd’hui pour qui travaillerait sur des problématiques liées à l’Antiquité classique car issue de revues internationales difficiles d’accès, dispersées voire oubliées. Cette documentation intéressera aussi ceux qui étudient l’histoire des sciences humaines, l’histoire des mentalités…

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Salomon Reinach (August 29, 1858 - November 4, 1932) was a French archaeologist. The brother of Joseph Reinach, he was born at St Germain-en-Laye and educated at the École normale supérieure before joining the French school at Athens in 1879. He made valuable archaeological discoveries at Myrina near Smyrna in 1880-82, at Cyme in 1881, at Thasos, Imbros and Lesbos (1882), at Carthage and Meninx (1883-84), at Odessa (1893) and elsewhere. He received honours from the chief learned societies of Europe. In 1887 he obtained an appointment at the National Museum of Antiquities at Saint-Germain-en-Laye; in 1893 he became assistant keeper, and in 1902 keeper of the national museums. In 1903 he became joint editor of the Revue archéologique, and in the same year officer of the Legion of Honour. The lectures he delivered on art at the École du Louvre in 1902-3 were published by him under the title of Apollo. These were translated into most European languages, and became a standard handbook on the subject. Reinach's first published work was a translation of Arthur Schopenhauer's Essay on Free Will (1877), which passed through many editions. This was followed by many works and articles in the learned reviews of which a list--up to 1903--is available in Bibliographie de S. R. (Angers, 1903). His Manuel de philologie classique (1880-1884) was crowned by the French association for the study of Greek; his Grammaire latine (1886) received a prize from the Society of Secondary Education; La Nécropole de Myrina (1887), written with E Pottier, and Antiquités nationales were crowned by the Academy of Inscriptions. He compiled an important Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine (3 vols., 1897-98); also Répertoire de peintures du Moyen âge et de la Renaissance 1280-1580 (1905, etc.); Répertoire des vases peints grecs et étrusques (1900). In 1905 he began his Cultes, mythes et religions; and in 1909 he published a general sketch of the history of religions under the title of Orpheus. He also translated from the English HC Lea's History of the Inquisition. Salomon Reinach died in 1932 and was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris.