Gobert tribute at Carthage and Bardo museums
Tunis , June 19, 2007 (TunisiaOnline)--An exhibit simultaneously held at the Carthage and Bardo Museums pays tribute to Ernest Gustave Gobert a French doctor and historian, as well as a great lover of Tunisia. The exhibit sheds light on an artist and scientist who investigated in different original ways Tunisia's cultural heritage.
Originally, Gustave Gobert came to Tunisia in the beginning of the 20 th century for humanitarian reasons, trying his best to eradicate typhus and smallpox which was rampant at the time in the country. He worked in close collaboration of Dr Charles Nicole who was later awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1928.
However, at the same time he also fell in love with Tunisia 's people and heritage, collecting a certain number of prehistoric objects, during excavations made on several Tunisian sites, such as Sidi Zin, El Mekta, Oued El Akarit and Hergla. The results of these prehistoric researches are now presented in the Carthage Museum.
The items displayed also include a collection of some of Gobert's personal objects and photos, fittingly exhibited in two of the capital's most interesting museums
The time he spent in the Tunisian South provided him with an opportunity to discover Tunisian traditions and mores which he photographed with an artistic sense that reveals his wonder at the rural way of life that characterized the Tunisian South at the time.
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