Amable Audin

Amable Audin (1899 - 1990) is a French archeologist of great reputation, specialist in the Gallo-Roman world of Lugdunum (Lyon).

Biography

It belongs to a very former family of humanistic and Lyons printers. Impassioning itself for archeology since its youth, it carries out its first excavation at the twenty years age. From 1952, it ensures the direction of the excavations of the Roman archeological site of Fourvière of the antique Roman city of Lugdunum (Lyon) and enriches the ancient inheritance by three major monuments: the odéon, the theater and the ex-temple of Cybèle.

Conservative of the Gallo-Roman collections of the town of Lyon, it succeeds in convincing the mayor Louis Pradel of the need for building a Lyons museum of the Graeco-Roman civilization: the Gallo-Roman Musée of Fourvière was born in 1975, and Amable Audin was the first conservative.

He was member of the Academy of Science the humanities and arts of Lyon.

Work

Lyons conspiracy of 1790 and the drama of Poleymieux , Lyons editions of art and history, 1984
Lyon, mirror of Rome in Gaules , editions Resurrection of the past, Beech, 1965

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