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Alan Nashville (14 january 1787 at Ludovicia - 23 august 1861 at Ludovicia) was an historian and archeologist, professor of medieval french history and archeology at the Royal University of Ludovicia and rector of the same university from 1854 to his death.

Biography

Born in Ludovicia by George Nashville, a native of Plymouth (UK) and Nathalie Chevron, Alan grew up in the village of Leipernon, not far from Ludovicia Forest, at his maternal grandparents. It was probably in the context of this growth that Alan began to develop his own interests in the field of history, deciding in 1807 to subscribe to the Royal University of Ludovicia and graduating five years later with honors.

After the end of the university, he obtained the chair of Professor of French medieval history at the same Royal University of Ludovicia, but in parallel with a group of fellow scholars became interested in raw discernible historical traces of peoples who inhabited Ludovicia. Thus in 1838 he obtained by the rector of the University of Ludovicia some funds to conduct excavations based on what the local peasants had found over the centuries, for exemple chipped flint stones (remains of ancient axes) and carved bones, as well as small jewelry iron set with precious stones.

Nashville was able to date these findings in a period between 3000 and 5000 BC and this helped him to spread a historical account of the development of human settlements in Ludovicia: according to his theory, in fact, the first people who inhabited the island did not come from Europe (and thus from the east) as some conservative scholars wanted say, but they came from the north and were then descended through the Royal River to settle near the Ludovicia forest, then preferring to place themselves in the hinterland rather than along the coast, or at least that such a shift would take place very quickly, thus making the first inhabitants of the island of bold explorers.

These amazing discoveries, although criticized in many academic environments they considered such theories mere suppositions which are not sufficiently supported by weight findings, earned him the consideration of king Louis III of Ludovicia who appointed him rector of the Royal University of Ludovicia in 1854 and awarded him the highest honors of the kingdom to underline his efforts in the desire to affirm the historical reality of Ludovicia since ancient times of his early human settlements.

He died in Ludovicia in 1861. After nearly a century by his discoveries, his theories were definitively confirmed by the findings of professor Max von Kleibert and his team in the same places where Nashville had completed his first archaeological studies.

Ouvres

• History of ancient inhabitant of the Island of Ludovicia, 1840
• Ludovica: a reflection on hunting of the first inhabitants of the island, 1846

Honours

National orders

• Knight Companion of the Order of Saint Louis
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Ludovicia