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Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
French businessman and photographer (1798–1865) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pierre-Gustave-Gaspard Joly de Lotbinière[1] (February 5, 1798 - June 8, 1865) was a French businessman and amateur daguerreotypist, born in Frauenfeld, Switzerland and citizen of the Republic of Geneva,[2] and married to a Canadian seigneuress. Famous for being the first to photograph the Acropolis of Athens and some ancient Egyptian monuments, he is also the father of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, Premier of Quebec from 1878 to 1879.
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