Martigny, Alexandre

Martigny, Alexandre a French archaeologist, was born April 22, 1808, at Sauverny, France. He received holy orders in 1832, and died August 19, 1880, at Belley. He is the author of the famous Dictionnaire des Antiquites Chretiennes (Paris, 1864; 2d ed. 1877). In 1865 he published a French translation of De' Rossi's Bulletino di Archeologia Cristiana. (B.P.)