Ernest Desjardins

Ernest Desjardins
Ernest Desjardins
Born	30 October 1823 (1823-10-30) Noisy-sur-Oise
Died	22 October 1886 (1886-10-23) (aged 62) Paris
Occupation	French geographer

Antoine Émile Ernest Desjardins (30 September 1823, Noisy-sur-Oise – 22 October 1886, Paris) was a French historian, geographer and archaeologist. He was a younger brother of historian Abel Desjardins (1814–1886).

In 1856 he began teaching classes in Latin epigraphy at the Lycée Napoleon in Paris, and from 1861 taught courses in geography at the École Normale Supérieure. For several years he conducted archaeological research in Italy, Egypt and regions along the Danube. In 1875 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. In 1886 he was appointed professor of epigraphy and Roman antiquities at the Collège de France.