Caspar Reuvens

Caspar Reuvens

Caspar Jacob Christiaan Reuvens (22 January 1793, The Hague – 26 July 1835, Rotterdam) was a Dutch historian and archaeologist. He was the founding director of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Dutch National Museum of Antiquities) in Leiden, the world's first ever professor of archaeology (at Leiden University), and conducted the first excavations at the Roman provincial site Forum Hadriani in the Netherlands.

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