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REINACH, JOSEPH (1856- )

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REINACH, See also:JOSEPH (1856- ) , See also:French author and politician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 30th of See also:September 1856. After leaving the Lycee See also:Condorcet he studied for the See also:bar, being called in 1887. He attracted the See also:attention of See also:Gambetta by articles on See also:Balkan politics published in the Revue bleue, and joined the See also:staff of the Republique fran4aise. In Gambetta's See also:grand ministere M. Reinach was his secretary, and See also:drew up the See also:case for a partial revision of the constitution and for the electoral method known as the scrutin de See also:lisle. In the Republique fran4aise he waged a steady See also:war against See also:General See also:Boulanger which brought him three duels, one with Edmond•Magnier and two with See also:Paul See also:Deroulede. Between 1889 and 1898 he sat for the Chamber of Deputies for See also:Digne. As member of the See also:army See also:commission, reporter of the budgets of the ministries of the interior and of See also:agriculture he brought forward bills for the better treatment of the insane, for the See also:establishment of a colonial See also:ministry, for the See also:taxation of See also:alcohol, and for the reparation of judicial errors. He advocated See also:complete freedom of the See also:theatre and the See also:press, the abolition of public executions, and denounced See also:political corruption of all kinds. He was indirectly implicated in the See also:Panama scandals through his See also:father-in-See also:law, See also:Baron de Reinach, though he made restitution as soon as he learned that he was benefiting by See also:fraud. But he is best known as the See also:champion of See also:Captain See also:Dreyfus. At the See also:time of the See also:original trial he attempted to secure a public See also:hearing of the case, and in 1897 he allied himself with Scheurer-Kestner to demand its revision.

He denounced in the Siecle the See also:

Henry See also:forgery, and Esterhazy's complicity. His articles in the Siecle aroused the fury of the See also:anti-Dreyfusard party, especially as he was himself a See also:Jew and therefore open to the See also:charge of having undertaken to defend the innocence of Dreyfus on racial grounds. He lost his seat in the Chamber of Deputies, and, having refused to fight See also:Henri See also:Rochefort, eventually brought an See also:action for See also:libel against him. Finally, the " affaire " being terminated and Dreyfus pardoned, he undertook to write the See also:history of the case, the first four volumes of which appeared in 1901. This was completed in 1905. In 1906 M. Reinach was re-elected for Digne. In that See also:year he became member of the commission of the See also:national archives, and next year of the See also:council on prisons. Reinach was a voluminous writer on political subjects. On Gambetta he published three volumes in 1884, and he also edited his speeches. For the criticisms of the anti-Dreyfusard press see Henri Dutrait-Croyon, Joseph Reinach, historien (Paris, 1905), a violent See also:criticism in detail of Reinach's history of the " affaire." His See also:brother, the well-known savant, SALOMON REINACH (1858- ), born at St Germain-en-Laye on the 29th of See also:August 1858, was educated at the Ecole normale superieure, and joined the French school at See also:Athens in 1879. He made valuable archaeological discoveries at Myrina near See also:Smyrna in 188o-82, at Cyme in 1881, at See also:Thasos, See also:Imbros and See also:Lesbos (1882), at See also:Carthage and Meninx (1883-84), at See also:Odessa (1893) and else-where.

He received honours from the See also:

chief learned societiesof See also:Europe, and in 1886 received an See also:appointment at the National Museum of Antiquities at St Germain; in 1893 he became assistant keeper, and in 1902 keeper of the national museums. In 1903 he became See also:joint editor of the Revue archeologique, and in the same year officer of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour. The lectures he delivered on See also:art at the Ecole du Louvre in 1902-3 were published by him under the See also:title of See also:Apollo. This See also:book has been translated into most See also:European See also:languages, and is one of the most compact handbooks of the subject. His first published See also:work was a See also:translation of See also:Schopenhauer's See also:Essay on See also:Free Will (1877), which passed through many See also:editions. This was followed by many See also:works and articles in the learned re-views of which a See also:list—up to 1903—is available in Bibliographie de S. R. (See also:Angers, 1903). His See also:Manuel de philologie classique (188o-1884) was crowned by the French association for the study of See also:Greek; his Grammaire latine (1886) received a See also:prize from the Society of Secondary See also:Education; La Necropole de Myrina (1887), written with E. Pottier, and Antiquites nationales were crowned by the See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions. He compiled an important Repertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine (3 vols., 1897-98); also Repertoire de peintures du moyen See also:age et de la See also:Renaissance 128o-158o (1905, &c.); Repertoire See also:des vases peints grecs et etrusques (1900). In 1905 he began his Cultes, mythes et religions; and in 1909 he published a general See also:sketch of the history of religions under the title of See also:Orpheus.

He also translated from the See also:

English H. C. See also:Lea's History of the See also:Inquisition. A younger brother, See also:THEODORE REINACH (186o- ), also had a brilliant career as a See also:scholar. He pleaded at the Parisian bar in 1881-86, but eventually gave himself up to the study of See also:numismatics. He wrote important works on the See also:ancient kingdoms of See also:Asia See also:Minor—Trois royaumes de l'Asie Mineure, Cappadoce, Bithynie, See also:Pont (1888), Mithridate Eupator (1890); also a See also:critical edition and translation with H. Weil of See also:Plutarch's See also:Treatise on See also:Music; and an Histoire des Israelites depuis la ruine de leur independance nationale jusqu'd nos fours (2nd ed., i9oi). From 1888 to 1897 he edited the Revue des etudes grecques.

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