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Félix Marie Charles Texier (22 August 1802 in Versailles – 1871 in Paris) was a French historian, architect and archaeologist. Texier published a number of significant works involving personal travels throughout Asia Minor and the Middle East. These books included descriptions and maps of ancient sites, reports of regional geography and geology, descriptions of art works and architecture, et al. Trained as an architect at the ''École des Beaux-Arts'' in Paris, he was appointed inspector of public works in 1827. He conducted excavations of the port cities of Fréjus and Ostia.〔(Prosopo ) Sociétés savantes de France〕 In 1833 he was sent on an exploratory mission to Asia Minor, where in 1834 he discovered ruins of the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusa.〔(Google Books ) Turkey Lonely Planet, 2007 - Travel - 724 pages〕 As a result of the expedition, he published the two-volume ''Description de l'Asie Mineure faite par ordre du Gouvernement français''. Later in the decade he participated in an expedition that took him to Armenia, Mesopotamia and Persia.〔(1833 - Quondam ) (biographical & bibliographical information)〕 In 1840 he became deputy professor of archaeology at the Collège de France, and in 1845 relocated to Algeria as inspector general of public buildings.〔 In 1855 he was elected to the ''Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres''.〔 == Published works == * ''Asie mineure: description géographique, historique et archéologique des provinces et des villes de la Chersonnèse d'Asie'', 1842 - Asia Minor, geographical, historical and archaeological descriptions of its provinces and cities. * ''Description de l'Arménie et de la Perse, de la Mésopotamie'', 1842–1845 - Description of Armenia, Persia and Mesopotamia. * ''Mémoires sur la Ville et le port de Fréjus'', 1847 - Memoirs on the city and port of Fréjus. * ''Édesse et ses monuments'', 1859 - Edessa and its monuments. * ''フランス語:L'Architecture byzantine ou recueil de monuments des premiers temps du christianisme en Orient'', 1864 - Translated into English and published as "Byzantine architecture : illustrated by examples of edifices erected in the East during the earliest ages of Christianity", London, (with R.P. Pullar), 1864. * "The principal ruins of Asia Minor", London, (with R.P. Pullar), 1865.〔(WorldCat Identities ) (published works)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Félix Marie Charles Texier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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