Claude Gros de Boze
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Claude Gros de Boze was a French scholar and numismatist.
. In 1706 he was made the Académie des inscriptions's perpetual secretary and in 1715 he was elected to the Académie française
. In 1719 he was made curator or garde of the Cabinet des médailles et antiques, a post he held until his death. With his student and assistant Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
he developed a method of classifying medals and in 1723 completed an "inventory of medals, engraved stones and other antique rarities in the Cabinet du roy". In 1727 he was elected a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and on 6 April 1749 even became a Fellow of the British Royal Society
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Life
Studying in Lyon and Paris, and settling in the latter around 1700, he gained the support of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault and thus (in 1705) became a pensionary of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettresAcadémie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is a French learned society devoted to the humanities, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France.-History:...
. In 1706 he was made the Académie des inscriptions's perpetual secretary and in 1715 he was elected to the Académie française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
. In 1719 he was made curator or garde of the Cabinet des médailles et antiques, a post he held until his death. With his student and assistant Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy was a French writer and numismatist.-Early life:Barthélemy was born at Cassis, in Provence, and began his classical studies at the College of Oratory in Marseilles. He took up philosophy and theology at the Jesuits' college, and finally attended the seminary of the Lazarists...
he developed a method of classifying medals and in 1723 completed an "inventory of medals, engraved stones and other antique rarities in the Cabinet du roy". In 1727 he was elected a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and on 6 April 1749 even became a Fellow of the British Royal Society
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
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Main publications
- Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand, avec des explications historiques par l'Académie royale des Médailles et des Inscriptions (1702)
- Traité historique sur le jubilé des Juifs (1702)
- Dissertation sur le JanusJanus-General:*Janus , the two-faced Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings*Janus , a moon of Saturn*Janus Patera, a shallow volcanic crater on Io, a moon of Jupiter...
des anciens et sur quelques médailles qui y ont rapport (1705) - Dissertation sur le culte que les Anciens ont rendu à la déesse de la Santé (1705)
- Explication d'une inscription antique trouvée depuis peu à Lyon, où sont décrites les particularitez des sacrifices que les Anciens appelloient « TauroboleTauroboliumIn the Roman empire of the 2nd to 4th centuries, taurobolium referred to practices involving the sacrifice of a bull, which after mid-2nd century became connected with the worship of the Great Mother of the Gods; though not previously limited to her cultus, after 159 CE all private taurobolia...
s » (1705) - Histoire de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres depuis son établissement jusqu'à présent (14 volumes) (1718-72)
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(1746)