Pierre Wuilleumier
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Professor
Pierre Wuilleumier | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 January 1904 Paris |
| Died | 20 November 1979 (aged 75) |
| Occupations | Archaeologist Professor |
Pierre Wuilleumier (1 January 1904 – 20 November 1979) was a 20th-century French scholar, normalian, professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne and archaeologist.
Pierre Wuilleumier held the chair of National Antiquities in Lyon from 1933. In 1940, he was responsible for the excavations of the ancient Theatre of Fourvière on the hill of Fourvière with Amable Audin. From 1941 to 1954, he directed two constituencies of Historic Antiquities in the Lyon region. He contributed to the magazine Gallia since its creation in 1942, in which he regularly published the results of excavations on the hill of Fourvière and the Lyon region.[1]
In 1947, he led the excavations of the so-called Cybel sanctuary in Lyon.
