Léon Renier

Charles Alphonse Leon Renier (2 May 1809, Charleville – 11 June 1885, Paris) was a 19th-century French historian specialist of Latin epigraphy. Arriving in Paris in 1838, he worked at the Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la France (edited by Le Bas) which directed his career towards philology and archeology. Elected a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France in 1845, he founded the same year a philology review, literature and ancient history and is charged about the same time to lead the new edition of the Encyclopédie moderne of .

Léon Renier

Charles Alphonse Leon Renier (2 May 1809, Charleville – 11 June 1885, Paris) was a 19th-century French historian specialist of Latin epigraphy. Arriving in Paris in 1838, he worked at the Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la France (edited by Le Bas) which directed his career towards philology and archeology. Elected a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France in 1845, he founded the same year a philology review, literature and ancient history and is charged about the same time to lead the new edition of the Encyclopédie moderne of .