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Léon Renier

Charles Alphonse Leon Renier (b. 1809, Charleville, d. 1885, Paris) was a French type historian and epigraphy expert. In 1847, he was appointed assistant librarian at the library of the Sorbonne. He was commissioned by the Institute in 1850-1852 to collect Roman inscriptions in Algeria. In 1856 he was elected member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Later, in 1861, he was made chair of epigraphy and Roman antiquities of the College de France and, in 1864, of the Ecole pratique des hautes études.

In 1854, he produced Latin épigraphique. Charles Mazé (2021) explains the context: n the early 1850s, the publication of several epigraphic publications by the Imprimerie impériale in Paris is accompanied by the production of new typefaces for the reproduction of ancient texts, based on the studies and surveys done by the books' authors. The first of these typefaces, Latin épigraphique is produced in 1854 under the guidance of historian Léon Renier (1809-1885), one of the major figures of French epigraphy. [...] In 1854 Renier had been tasked with collecting rubbings, sketches and squeezes (paper casts) of all the inscriptions of Gallo-Roman monuments in France, with a view to produce a general publication of the inscriptions of Gaul. These documents are now in the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris. The majority of the records from the period 1850-1855, are the work of archaeologist and historian Eugène Germer-Durand (1812-1880). [...] Latin épigraphique was used for the first time in the Recueil des Inscriptions romaines de l'Algérie, published between 1855 and 1858 and considered the first French scientific work of Latin epigraphy.

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