Commemorative bronze medal, 71x71mm, approximately 270g, signed Landowski (Prix de Rome in 1900, gold medal for sculpture at the Olympic Games in 1928), in very good condition according to scans, triangular hallmark. Raymond Thamin, born in Bayeux on June 3, 1857, and died on April 5, 1933, was a French moral philosopher and academic. A student of the École Normale Supérieure, he was an agrégé in philosophy and a doctor of letters.
He served as a philosophy professor at the Condorcet high school, then at the faculties of letters in Lyon and Paris. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities of Lyon in 1891, awarded an honorary doctorate by Laval University in Quebec in 1902, and became a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1922.He is buried at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery. Selected Publications: A Moral Problem in Antiquity, a study on Stoic casuistry, 1884; De Puerorum indole quaedam notantur, thesis, 1895; Online text Education and Positivism, 1892; Online text Saint Ambrose and Christian Morality in the 4th Century, a comparative study of Cicero's "Duties" and Saint Ambrose's treaties, 1895; Excerpts from Moralists (17th, 18th, 19th centuries), 1897; Course in Morality for Young Girls, 1904; Online text The University and War, 1916; Online text War Pedagogy, pages compiled by Raymond Thamin, 1920; Online text Bibliography René Doumic, "Raymond Thamin," La Revue des Deux Mondes, 1933, pp. 220-230; Georges Dumas, Notice on the life and work of M. WHO ARE WE Professionals for 70 years, the first to start the medal trade was Master Albert de Jaeger, the artist, sculptor, medallist, goldsmith, First Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving in 1935.