Name Claude de | ||
Died September 10, 1753, Paris, France | ||
Claude Gros de Boze (28 January 1680 – 10 September 1753) was a French scholar and numismatist.
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Biography
De Boze was born at Lyon. Studying in Lyon and Paris, and settling in the latter around 1700, he gained the support of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault and thus (in 1705) became a pensionary of the Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. In 1706 he was made the Academie des inscriptions's perpetual secretary and in 1715 he was elected to the Academie francaise. In 1719 he was made curator or garde of the Cabinet des medailles et antiques, a post he held until his death. With his student and assistant Jean-Jacques Barthelemy he developed a method of classifying medals and in 1723 completed an "inventory of medals, engraved stones and other antique rarities in the Cabinet du roy". In 1727 he was elected a member of the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture and on 6 April 1749 even became a Fellow of the British Royal Society. He died, aged 73, in Paris.