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DRAMATIS PERSONAE 1825 | 1875 | 1925 | 1975
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Ahmad ibn Mustafa, or Ahmed Bey (1805-1855, reg.1837-1855)
Allowed construction of a shrine to St. Louis on the Byrsa Hill (1840-1841), hosting a visit there by Louis Philippe.
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abbé François Bourgade (1806-1866)
Early Catholic missionary to Algiers and Tunis (from 1838), first caretaker of the Chapelle Saint-Louis de Carthage on the Byrsa Hill (1841-1858), antiquarian and collector.
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Christian Tuxen Falbe (1791-1849)
Danish military attaché and diplomat-antiquarian who first mapped the ruins of ancient Carthage (1833) and who brought artifacts back to Københaven for the Nationalmuseet.
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Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842)
Professor of Theology at the University of Halle (from 1811); travelled to England and the Netherlands (1835) in order to autopsy Phoenician inscriptions and casts for his philological studies, particularly those from the RMO published by Hamaker.
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Hendrik Arrent Hamaker (1789-1835)
Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Leiden (from 1817); provided an early academic survey of Phoenician inscriptions (1828).
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Jean Emile Humbert (1771-1839)
Dutch military attaché and diplomat-antiquarian who first brought artifacts from Carthage to royal European museums (1817), e.g. Koninklijk Museum (which moved to Leiden, now RMO) and Real Museo Borbonico (now MANN) in Naples.
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Adolphe Jules César Auguste Dureau de la Malle (1777-1857)
Published an early topography of Carthage (1835).
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Saverio Marchese (1757-1833), Count of Maimon
Maltese antiquarian and collector.
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Étienne Marc Quatremère (1782-1857)
Professor at the École des langues orientales (from 1838); contributed to lexicographic collections in various languages (e.g. Persian, Egyptian, Phoenician).
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Thomas Reade KCB (1782-1849)
Custodian of Napoleon (St. Helena, 1816-1821); consul general to the bey of Tunis (from 1824); his aggressive extraction of inscriptions led to the partial collapse of the Mausoleum of Atban in Dougga.
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Caspar Jacob Christiaan Reuvens (1793-1835)
Professor of Archaeology (the world's first) at the University of Leiden; founding director of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO); patron of Humbert and colleague of Hamaker.
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Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838), Baron of the French Empire
Professor in the École des langues orientales (from 1795); supported philological and lexicographical exploration of the Levant, Egypt and North Africa.
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Rev. Giovanni Spano (1803-1878)
Philologist and Professor at the University of Cagliari (from 1834) and Turin (from 1871); led early archaeological excavations on Sardinia.
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Grenville T. Temple (1799-1847)
Self-styled Baron of Stowe (1799-1847), antiquarian who described monuments and inscriptions across Algeria and Tunisia (1835).
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