Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville

Charles-Alexis-Adrien
Duhérissier de Gerville
Born(1769-09-19)19 September 1769
Gerville-la-Forêt (Manche)
Died26 July 1853(1853-07-26) (aged 83)
Valognes (Manche)
Occupationsantiquarian, historian, naturalist, archaeologist

Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville (Gerville-la-Forêt (Manche) 19 September 1769 — Valognes (Manche) 26 July 1853) was a scholarly French antiquarian, historian, naturalist and archaeologist from an aristocratic family of Normandy. His earliest concerns were with natural history and botany and his numismatic collection, but he became one of the small group forming the first architectural historians in France.

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