Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand (June 11, 1820 – 1902) was a French archaeologist who was a native of Rennes

Rennes

Rennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.-History:...

. He was the son of physician Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand

Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand

Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand was a French physician and mesmerist who was a native of Rennes. He was the father of archaeologist Alexandre Bertrand and mathematician Joseph Bertrand...

 (1795-1831) and elder brother to mathematician

Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

 Joseph Louis François Bertrand

Joseph Louis François Bertrand

Joseph Louis François Bertrand was a French mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics....

 (1822-1900).

Bertrand studied at Ecole Normale Superieure de la rue d'Ulm

École Normale Supérieure

The École normale supérieure is one of the most prestigious French grandes écoles...

, and after a three-year expedition to Babylon

Babylon

Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad...

 he became a member of the French School at Athens in 1849. From 1851 to 1857 he was a professor of rhetoric at Rennes.

Bertrand was a pioneer of Gallic and Gallo-Roman

Gallo-Roman culture

The term Gallo-Roman describes the Romanized culture of Gaul under the rule of the Roman Empire. This was characterized by the Gaulish adoption or adaptation of Roman mores and way of life in a uniquely Gaulish context...

 archaeology, and was involved in the archaeological dig at Alise-Sainte-Reine

Alise-Sainte-Reine

Alise-Sainte-Reine is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in Bourgogne in eastern France.It is thought to be the site of the ancient city of Alesia, where Caesar defeated the Gauls under Vercingetorix in the Battle of Alesia...

. In 1867 he was founder of the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale (Museum of National Antiquities) in Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the centre.Inhabitants are called Saint-Germanois...

, and was its director until his death in 1902.

In 1882 he became a professor of archaeology at the Ecole du Louvre

École du Louvre

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, and was also an editor of Revue Archeologique and a member of Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

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Selected writings

• Études de mythologie et d'archéologie grecques d'Athène à Argos, 1858
• Archéologie celtique & gauloise, 1876
• Archéologie celtique et gauloise, 1889
• La Gaule avant les Gaulois, 1891
• Les Celtes dans les vallées du Po et du Danube, 1894