Ernest Mamboury
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Ernest Mamboury was a Swiss scholar renowned for his works on the historic structures in Turkish cities, particularly on Byzantine
art and architecture in Istanbul
.
Mamboury was born 1878 in Signy-Avenex
, Switzerland
. He studied in the École Normale of Lausanne
(1894-1898), in Geneva
(1898-1903) and the Académie Julian
in Paris
(1904-1905).
In 1909 he became a professor of French language and literature at Galatasaray High School in Constantinople
(Istanbul
), Ottoman Empire
.
Throughout his life in Istanbul, which lasted for more than forty years until his death in 1953, Mamboury dedicated most of his literary works on the Byzantine structures of this city, as well as other significant historic monuments in Istanbul and Ankara
.
Ernest Mamboury died in Istanbul on September 23, 1953, and was buried at the Istanbul (Ferikoy) Protestant Cemetery
in the Feriköy district on the Golden Horn
.
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...
art and architecture in Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
.
Mamboury was born 1878 in Signy-Avenex
Signy-Avenex
Signy-Avenex is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-History:Avenex is first mentioned in 926 as Avenaco. In 1018, Signy was mentioned as Sigiciacum.-Geography:...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. He studied in the École Normale of Lausanne
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
(1894-1898), in Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
(1898-1903) and the Académie Julian
Académie Julian
The Académie Julian was an art school in Paris, France.Rodolphe Julian established the Académie Julian in 1868 at the Passage des Panoramas, as a private studio school for art students. The Académie Julian not only prepared students to the exams at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, but offered...
in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
(1904-1905).
In 1909 he became a professor of French language and literature at Galatasaray High School in Constantinople
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
(Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
), Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
.
Throughout his life in Istanbul, which lasted for more than forty years until his death in 1953, Mamboury dedicated most of his literary works on the Byzantine structures of this city, as well as other significant historic monuments in Istanbul and Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
.
Ernest Mamboury died in Istanbul on September 23, 1953, and was buried at the Istanbul (Ferikoy) Protestant Cemetery
Istanbul (Ferikoy) Protestant Cemetery
The Ferikoy Protestant Cemetery officially called Evangelicorum Commune Coemeterium is a Christian cemetery in Istanbul, Turkey. As the name of the cemetery indicates, it is the final resting place of Protestants residing in Istanbul...
in the Feriköy district on the Golden Horn
Golden Horn
The Golden Horn is a historic inlet of the Bosphorus dividing the city of Istanbul and forming the natural harbor that has sheltered Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and other ships for thousands of...
.
Books written by Mamboury
- Constantinople: guide touristique. Constantinople, Rizzo 1925
- Istanbul. Rehber-i Seyyahîn. Istanbul, Rizzo 1924
- Constantinople: tourists' guide. Constantinople, Rizzo & Son 1926
- Constantinople: guide touristique. 2. éd. française. Constantinople, Rizzo 1929
- Stambul. Reiseführer. Übersetzt v. Johs. Ahlers. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. Vervollständigt bis 1930. Stambul, John A. Rizzo 1930.
- Byzance - Constantinople - Istanbul: guide touristique. 3. éd.. Galata [u.a.], Milli Neşriyat Yurdu 1934
- Istanbul touristique. Ed. française mise à jour à fin mars 1951. Galata, Istanbul, Çituri Biraderler Basımevi 1951
- The tourists' Istanbul. English ed. translated by Malcolm Burr. Istanbul, Çituri Biraderler Basımevi 1953
- Ankara: guide touristique, Haidar-Pacha - Ankara; Bogaz-Keuy, Euyuk, Sivri-Hissar et environs, Tchangiri, Yozgat, etc. Ankara, Ministère Turc de l'Intérieur 1933
- Ankara: guide touristique. 2. éd. française. Ankara, Ministère Turc de l'Intérieur 1934
- Les Îles des Princes. Banlieue maritime d'Istanbul ... Guide touristique [Publications touristiques. vol. 2B.] Istanbul, Maarif Matbaası 1943
- ed. établie par Ernest Mamboury et Robert Boulanger: Turquie, Les guides bleus, Paris, Hachette 1958.
Other literary works
- Ruines Byzantines. Autour d'Odalar-Djamisi à Stambul, Echos d'Orient 19, 1920, 69-73.
- Le couvent byzantin de femmes à Prinkipo, Echos d'Orient 19, 1920, 200-208.
- Ruines Byzantines de Mara, entre Maltépé et Bostandjik, Echos d'Orient 19, 1920, 322-330.
- Le Harem des Sultans, in: L'Illustration 88, 4553, 7. Juni 1930, 226-232.
- Die Moschee Mehmeds des Eroberers und die neue Bibliothek im Serail des Sultans von Stambul, Die Denkmalpflege 1931, 161-167.
- mit Theodor Wiegand: Die Kaiserpaläste von Konstantinopel zwischen Hippodrom und Marmara-Meer. Berlin, Leipzig, de Gruyter 1934
- Un nouvelle élément pour la topographie de l'antique Byzance, Archäologischer Anzeiger 1934, 50-61.
- Şile, Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu Bülteni 5, 13-76, 1934, 23-24.
- Übers. von Halil Edhem: Nos mosquées de Stamboul, Istanbul, Librairie Kanaat 1934
- Les fouilles Byzantines à Istanbul et dans sa banlieue immédiate aux XIX et XXe siècles. Byzantion 11, 1936, 229-283.
- Le nouvelle citerne Byzantine de Tchifté Sérail (Istanbul), Byzantion 11, 1936, 167-190.
- mit Robert Demangel: Une inscription datée sur une tour Byzantine de Constantinople, Bulletin Correspondence Hellenique 60, 1936, 208-213.
- L'influence de l'art Turc dans les constructions religieuses roumaines, Annales de Turquie 6, 1936, No 3, 17-29.
- Le developpement d'Istanbul depuis la conquête jusqu'à nos jours, Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu Bülteni 7, 16-89, 1937, 19-25.
- Le développement d'Istanbul depuis la conquête jusqu'à nos jours, Bulletin de l'Union française, Istanbul No 4, juillet 1937, 8-18.
- L'art Turc du XVIIIème siècle, La Turquie Kémaliste 19, 1937, 2-11.
- Les fouilles Byzantines à Istanbul et dans sa banlieue immédiate en 1936-1937. Byzantion 13, 1938, 301 310.
- Bursa la verdoynte, Les annales de Turquie 8, Juni 1938
- mit Robert Demangel: Le quartier des Manganes et la première région de Constantinople, Paris, de Boccard 1939.
- Une des plus beaux coins de la Turquie republicaine: la fôret de pins à pignons de Kozak, La Turquie Kémaliste 31, 1939, 34-38.
- Topographic de Sainte-Sophie, le sanctuaire et la solea, le mitatorion, le puits Sacré, le passage de St Nicolas etc., Atti del V Congresso di studi bizantini 2, Rom 1940, 197-209.
- Istanbul'un ilk Ahalisi, Geçit - Review Januar-Februar 1940, 53-55 = Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu Bülteni 54, 1946, 53-55.
- 1939-1940 Yıllarında Istanbul'da Müşahede Edilen Original bir Tabiat Hâdisesi, Ilk Öğretim 57, 14. April 1940, 634.
- Préface, in: Benedetto Palazzo: L'Arap Djami ou église Saint Paul à Galata, Istanbul 1946, IX-XI.
- Les guerres entre les Scythes et les Mèdes et leur incidence sur l'historie de Byzance, Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu Bülteni 66, 1947, S. 27-28.
- Les necropoles de Byzance, Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu Bülteni 79, 1948, 27-30 = Bizans Mezarlıkları, in: Cumhuriyet, 28. Juni 1948
- Bursa. Ankara, Direction générale de la presse, de la radiodifussion et du tourisme 1949.
- Les briques Byzantines marquées du chrisme, Annuaire de l’Institut de Philologie et d’Histoire Orientales 9, 1949, 449–462.
- Une nouvelle lecture raisonnée des inscriptions de briques Byzantines et l'emploi de ces dernières dans la datation des monuments des Ve et VIe siècles, Byzantion 19, 1949, 113-125.
- Les parages du temple de Rome et d'Auguste à Ankara, Türk Tarih, Arkeologya ve Etnografya Dergisi 5, 1949, 96-102.
- L'art chrétien en Anatolie, Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu Bülteni 98, 1950, 20-22.
- Nouvelles fouilles archéologiques sur l'emplacement de l'Hippodrome, Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu Bülteni 107, 1950, 24-28 = Adalet Sarayının Arsasındaki Eserler, Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu Bülteni 108, 1951, 17-19.
- Les fouilles Byzantine à Istanbul et ses environs et les trouvailles archéologiques faites au cours de constructions au de travaux officials et privés depuis 1936, Byzantion 21, 1951, 425-459.
- Contribution à la topographie générale de Constantinople, in: Actes du VIe Congress Internationale d' Études Byzantines Paris 1948, Bd. II, Paris 1951, 243-253.
- Le Forum de Constantin; la chapelle de St. Constantin et les mystères de la Colonne Brulée. Resultats des sondages opérés en 1929 et 1930, in: Pepragmena tu Diethnus Byzantinologiku Synedriu Thessaloniki 1953, Thessaloniki 1955, 275-288.
- La Suisse nouvelle province d'art byzantin, in: Pepragmena tu Diethnus Byzantinologiku Synedriu Thessaloniki 1953, Thessaloniki 1955, 281-285.
- Appendix IV, In: Cyril Mango: The Brazen House: a study of the vestibule of the Imperial Palace of Constantinople. Kopenhagen 1959, 182-188.
Further reading
- Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon. Bd. 4, Frauenfeld 1917, S. 293.
- Le jubilé d'Ernest Mamboury, in: Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu Bülteni 76, 1948, S. 28-30.
- Philipp Schweinfurt: Nachruf auf einen Schweizer Byzantinisten, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Fernausgabe Nr. 287, 19. April 1953
- Ernest Mamboury, Professeur et savant archéologue n'est plus, in: Courrier de la Côte 10.-11. April 1953
- Semavi Eyice: Ernest Mamboury (1878-1953). In: Türk Tarih Kurumu Bülteni 17, 1953, S. 393-411.
- Jonathan Bardill: Brickstamps of Constantinople. Oxford 2004. ISBN 0-19-925524-5