Alexandre Bertrand

Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand (11 June 1820 – 1902) was a French archaeologist born in Rennes.

Alexandre Bertrand studied at the École Normale Superieure, and later taught classes at the lycée in Laval (from 1848).

In 1849 he became a member of the École française d'Athènes, and from 1851 to 1858, served as a professor of rhetoric at the lycée in Rennes.

In 1864, with Louis Félicien de Saulcy, he directed excavations of burial mounds at Meloisey.

[1] He was an editor of Revue Archeologique and a member of Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.