Alexandre Bertrand

Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand (11 June 1820 – 1902) was a French archaeologist born in Rennes.

Life He was the son of physician Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand (1795-1831) and the elder brother of mathematician Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822-1900).

Alexandre Bertrand studied at the École normale supérieure, and later taught classes at the lycée in Laval (from 1848). In 1849 he became a member of the École française d'Athènes, and from 1851 to 1858 served as a professor of rhetoric at the lycée in Rennes.

Bertrand was a pioneer of Gallic and Gallo-Roman archaeology, and was involved in the archaeological dig at Alise-Sainte-Reine (1861/62). In 1864, with Louis Félicien de Saulcy, he directed excavations of burial mounds at Meloisey.

Selected writings Études de mythologie et d'archéologie grecques, d'Athènes à Argos, 1858 - Studies of Greek mythology and archaeology of Athens and Argos. Archéologie celtique & gauloise, mémoires et documents relatifs aux premiers temps de notre histoire nationale, 1876 - Celtic and Gallic archaeology. La Gaule avant les Gaulois, 1891 - Gaul prior to the Gallic. Les Celtes dans les vallées du Po et du Danube, 1894 - Celtic people in the Po and Danube Valleys.