Edmond Pottier

Edmond François Paul Pottier (13 August 1855, Saarbrücken – 4 July 1934, Paris) was an art historian and archaeologist who was instrumental in establishing the Corpus vasorum antiquorum. He was a pioneering scholar in the study of Ancient Greek pottery.

He was born in Saarbrücken, Rhineland, the son of a civil engineer he won a place at the Lycée Condorcet and went on to study at the École Normale Supérieure and the École d'Athènes, his thesis was on the subject of the chronology of Athenian archons. It was during his tenure as a curator at the Louvre that he organised the first meeting of the Union Académique Internationale aimed at establishing the complete corpus of Greek vases held in the national collections of every nation in 1919, the ''Corpus vasorum antiquorum''. He produced the first fascicule for the Louvre in 1922.

Under the pseudonym Jacques Morel his wife was a writer who won the 1912 Prix Femina with the book ''Feuilles mortes''. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Pottier, Edmond, 1855-1934
    Published 1890
    Paris : Hachette, 1890.
    vi, 314 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
  2. 2
    by Pottier, Edmond, 1855-1934
    Published 1909
    Paris, H. Laurens [1909]
    127, [1] p. incl. illus., XXIV pl. 22 cm.
  3. 3
    Published 1917
    Paris : G. Braun, 1917.
    154 p., 32 p. of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Pottier, Edmond, 1855-1934...
  4. 4
    Published 1917
    Paris, G. Braun, 1917.
    154 p. plates. 19 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Pottier, Edmond, 1855-1934...
  5. 5
    Published 1920
    Paris : P. Geuthner, 1920-
    v. : ill., plates, plans ; 29 cm.
    Issued also on microfilm by American Theological Library Association.
    Other Authors: ...Pottier, Edmond, 1855-1934...
  6. 6
    Published 1920
    Paris : P. Geuthner, 1920-
    v. : ill., plates, plans ; 29 cm.
    Issued also on microfilm by American Theological Library Association.
    Other Authors: ...Pottier, Edmond, 1855-1934...

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