Conrad Leemans - Romeinsche oudheden te Rossem. (Platen). - 1842

Conrad Leemans: Roman antiquities in Rossem. (Plates). ... Leyden, H.W. Hazenberg & co. 1842. Large 4to: (2) pages and XVIII numbered plates, of which the first is a large fold-out partly hand-colored. All plates have been photogravured. Plate 1 has some brown spots. Original half leather binding. Spine damaged at the bottom. A piece missing. Edges and corners somewhat worn. Binding in good condition.

Conradus (Conrad) Leemans (Zaltbommel, April 24, 1809 – Leiden, October 14, 1893) was a Dutch Egyptologist and director of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden.
Painted scene of the Evening Battle in Boutersem on August 11, 1831, with the wounded student Conrad Leemans in the foreground on the left.
Leemans studied theology at Leiden University. During his student years, in 1831, he participated as a volunteer in the Ten Days Campaign with the Volunteer Hunters of the Leiden University. He was injured on August 11 during the evening fight at Boutersem.
After a meeting with Caspar Reuvens, Leemans shifted his studies towards archaeology. From 1834, he worked at the National Museum of Antiquities, where he served as director from 1839 to 1891. Leemans organized the first public exhibition of the collections acquired by Reuvens, compiled a catalog of Egyptian objects (the Catalogue Raisonnée, 1840), and edited the serial publication of the Monumens Égyptiens, a lithographic catalog of the Egyptian collection. As museum director, Leemans studied Leiden papyri and completed the work begun by Reuvens.
Leemans was appointed as a member of the Royal Institute in 1840, the predecessor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Leemans was a descendant of the Leemans family, which is listed in the Dutch Patriciaat, and a son of Dr. Wilhelmus Leemans (1774-1848), a physician, and Hillegonda Rachel Ganderheyden (1785-1858). In 1840, he married Cornelia Maria de Virieu (1818-1904), a daughter of landscape architect François Willem de Virieu (1789-1876), with whom he had a son and a daughter, including ir. Wilhelmus François Leemans (1841-1929).
Leemans was distinguished as a commander in the Order of the Dutch Lion. A bronze bust of Leemans is part of the tomb monument of Auguste Mariette in the front garden of the Egyptian Museum (Cairo).