Julien-David Le Roy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Julien-David Le Roy

French architect

Date of Birth: 06-May-1724

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 28-Jan-1803

Profession: architect, art historian, archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Julien David Le Roy (French pronunciation: ?[?ylj?~ david l??wa]), also Leroy (6 May 1724 in Paris – 28 January 1803 in Paris) was an 18th-century French architect and archaeologist, who engaged in a rivalry with Britons James Stuart and Nicholas Revett over who would publish the first professional description of the Acropolis of Athens since an early 1682 work by Antoine Desgodetz.
Le Roy succeeded in printing his Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece four years ahead of Stuart and Revett.