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Ecole des Langues Orientales. Was dragoman to Consulate at Jerusalem and Embassy at Constantinople. Discovered the Stele of Mesha and the Stele of the Temple.
Ecole des Langues Orientales. Was dragoman to Consulate at Jerusalem and Embassy at Constantinople. Discovered the Stele of Mesha and the Stele of the Temple.
Employed by British Government to take charge of archaeological expedition to Palestine, 1874. By French Government to Syria, Tripolitana, Cyrenaica, Elephantina, and Red Sea. Chevalier of the Ldgion of Honour, 1875.
Vice-Consul, Jaffa, 1880.
Premier Secretaire-Interp^te for Oriental Languages, Paris, 1882. Consul of the First Class, 1886.
Consul General, 1896. Minister Plenipotentiary, 1906.
Director at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and Professor of Semitic epigraphy and antiquities at the College de France.
Elected Member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1889. Doctor of Laws, Rloyal Society of Literature. Member correspondent de l’Academie Imperiale de Saint Petersbourg.
Was principally instrumental in exposing the forgeries of the Moabite pottery, of Shapira’s manuscripts, and of the tiara of Saitapharnes.
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