Saulcy, FÉLICIEN CAIGNART DE

Saulcy, FÉLICIEN CAIGNART DE, numismatist, was born at Lille, 19th March 1807, became an artillery officer, and after lecturing for a few terms on mechanics, was made keeper of the artillery museum in Paris in 1842. A member of the Academy and a senator, he travelled in Iceland and Greenland, and subsequently in Syria and Palestine. Besides innumerable works on numismatics (Roman, Greek, Carthaginian, French, &c.) he wrote a description of the Dead Sea in which there were many discoveries noted (1852-54), a Voyage en Terre Sainte (1865), the illustrated Jersalem (1881), and books on Julius Cæsar in Gaul and on Jewish history. He died at Paris, 4th November 1880.