Louis Christophe Auguste Allmer (8 July 1815 – 27 November 1899) was a 19th-century French historian and epigrapher. He contributed with Paul Dissard to changing a fledgling science by confronting archaeological evidence and providing reference documentation.
Biography
In 1835, he became, like his father, a tax collector for the Ministry of Finance, among others, in Saint-Priest (Rhône). Then, when he retired in 1868, he devoted himself to epigraphy and archeology. He was particularly interested in Roman remains unearthed by the drilling of the PLM line in Lyon. In his time he was one of the leading specialists of Latin epigraphy, in the tradition of Léon Renier.
On 2 April 1875, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur as author of significant work in the field of archeology.[1]
