Rene Cagnat

Rene-Louis-Victor Cagnat , born the October 10th 1852 and died in 1937, is a Historien French, specialist in Latin epigraphy and history of the Roman Africa.

With died of his/her father, it is Leon Renier, a friend of family, which deals with her education. Under the influence of Ernest Desjardins, it starts to be interested in the epigraphy. It conducts an archaeological campaign in Tunisia and becomes professor of epigraphy in 1883. It is in 1885 that it publishes its famous Cours of Latin epigraphy .

In 1887, it succeeds Desjardins with the pulpit of epigraphy and Roman antiquities to the Collège de France. In 1888, it founds the epigraphic Year . In 1895, it is elected member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities, of which he is perpetual secretary of 1916 to his death.

Publications

Course of Latin epigraphy , Paris, 1885
the Roman army of Africa and military occupation of Africa under the emperors , Paris, 1892
Carthage, Timgad, Tebessa and the ancient cities of North Africa , Paris, 1909 Manual
of Roman archeology , with Victor Chapot, Paris, 1916-1920
Latin Inscriptions of Africa , Paris, 1923

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