Solomon Reinach (born with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer the August 29th 1858, died with Boulogne on the Seine the November 4th 1932), was a Archéologue French and a specialist in the Histoire of the religions.

Biography

Born in a family from bankers Jew-German (his/her brothers Joseph and Theodore will make also a brilliant career), it follows the courses of the National university before joining the French École of Athens in 1879. It is interested in the Philosophie, translated the Essai on the free will of Schopenhauer into 1877 before publishing Manuel traditional philology in 1880 and Latin Grammaire in 1886.

Archeologist of ground, it carries out in the Mediterranean circumference excavations which will have a great repercussion near the scientific community, in particular with Myrina, close to Smyrna between 1880 and 1882, to Kymé in 1881, in the islands of Thasos, Imbros and Lesbos in 1882, with Carthage and Meninx (Jerba) the following year, then with Odessa in 1893.

Named assisting with the Museum of the National antiquities, with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, in 1887, he will be the assistant conservative of 1893 to 1902, then the director, of 1902 with his death. It arranges the rooms of the museum, multiplies the catalogs and the inventories, and compiles repertories on the Greek and Roman statues, paintings of the Middle Ages and the Rebirth, and the vases Greek and Etruscan.

In 1896, he becomes member of the Académie of the Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres. The same year it recommends the purchase for 200.000 gold franc by the Musée of Louvre of the Tiare of Saïtapharnès which will prove to be a forgery. It creates in 1902 the course of general history of art to the École of Louvre and divides the following year with Edmond Pottier the position of director of publication of the archaeological Revue , one of the oldest French scientific periodicals.

It starts its major work, Cultes, myths and religions in 1905, then publishes Orpheus in 1909, a vast fresco on the history of the religions. These two works will be frequently quoted by Freud in Totem and taboo .

Its passion for archeology will lead it to consider the business of Glozel, where it starts excavations in 1926 and 1927, before supporting the authenticity of the site.

Burning defender of the culture and the rights of the Jews, he is vice-president of the Alliance universal Jew and member of the Company of the Jewish Studies.

Died in Boulogne, close to Paris, in 1932, it will be buried with the Cimetière of Montmartre.

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