CAIX DE SAINT-AYMOUR, Amédée, vicomte de. Senlis (Oise) 26.4.1843 — Paris 1.2.1921. French Archaeologist and Historian with early interest in Comparative Linguistics. Studied law and linguistics, later turned to archaeology. Son of Léon de Caix de St.-A. (maire of Ognon) and Louise Marie Eugénie Raffard de Marcilly. In 1869 led an archaeological expedition to Bosnia, but otherwise remained in Senlis in his Chateu d’Ognon studying local antiquities, founded the Comité archéologique de Senlis as early as 1862. For a while conseiller général de l’Oise. Married 1868 Berthe Labeaume de Tarteron, two daughters and one son.
Publications: “Sur la déclinaison indo-européenne, et sur la déclinaison des langues classiques en particulier”, Revue ling. 1:1-2, 1867, 51-66, 204-214.
– La langue latine, étudiée dans l’unité indo-européenne. 1. 452 p. P. 1867.
– Les pays sud-slaves de l’Austro-Hongrie (Croatie, Slavonie, Bosnie, Herzegovine, Dalmatie. 386 p. P. 1883.
– Les Arabes et les Kabyles. 1891, and ten further books on history and colonies.
Sources: French Wikipédia, long account with photo and a list of his books and articles.
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