Albert Grenier

Formation and teaching

Graduate of the practical School of the high studies in 1904, member of the French School of Rome between 1904 and 1907, Albert Grenier obtains the title of arts doctor in 1912.

After the war, in 1919, it is named professor of Gallo-Roman and Rhenish antiquities to the Faculty of Arts of Strasbourg where it taught until 1932.

Professor with the college of France

He was then substitute for Camille Jullian with the Collège de France of 1932 to 1933. He is titular pulpit of history of the national antiquities of 1936 to 1948.

He is elected director of studies at the practical School of the high studies in 1937 and he is named French principal of Rome of 1947 with 1952.

He founds the review Gallia in 1943. Gallia, Archéologie of ancient France , managed by CNRS has been, for one half-century, the great French review of national archeology.

Correspondent of the Academy of the inscriptions and the humanities as from 1931, it is elected by it member in 1942.

The handbook of Gallo-Roman Archeology

Works

Gaulle: Roman province
the Gallic ones, Small Payot library, Paris, 1970,

Roman Genius in the religion, the thought, art

Four Roman cities of the Rhineland: Trier, Mainz, Manual Bonn, Cologne

of Gallo-Roman archeology, volume 1: Military general information and work

Manual of Gallo-Roman archeology, volume 2: The Archeology of the ground, roads, navigation, occupation of the ground