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Biography of Vercingetorix
Name: Vercingetorix
Birth Date: c. 75 B.C.
Death Date: c. 46 B.C.
Place of Birth: Gaul
Nationality: Celtic
Gender: Male
Occupations: military leader, chieftain
Vercingetorix
Celtic chieftain Vercingetorix (c. 75 BC-c. 46 BC) battled valiantly to keep the Roman army from overrunning the territory of Gaul, as France was then called. His troops were defeated at Alesia and Vercingetorix was forced to surrender.Revered in France as its first national hero, Vercingetorix managed to unite several sovereign Celtic tribes to do battle against the aggressive Romans. Vercingetorix was an Arverni, one of the many Celtic tribes who ruled over what is France today, northern Germany, the Benelux countries, and the British Isles. Originally a migratory race, scholars theorize that the Celts hailed from what is now southern Germany. During the Iron Age, they settled across much of the western European continent, and were known to be skilled on horseback and fierce in battle; they were also excellent goldsmiths. By the fifth and fourth centuries BC, Celtic iron tool culture was firmly established across much of the European …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…built for military purposes, and the new Roman Gauls began to prosper from access to pan-European trade. Latin was imposed as a language, but a slang version (Vulgar Latin) was spoken by the soldiers and people. Its mixture with existing Celtic words developed into the French language.Alesia is today the town of Alesia-St. Reine, and a large statue of Vercingetorix sits at Mont Auxois there. It was dedicated in the nineteenth century at a time when France rediscovered this long-forgotten Celt and declared him a figure of French resistance to the aggression of other European powers. Further Reading Caesar, Julius, The Gallic War,English translation by H. J. Edwards, Harvard University Press, 1917.Cole, Robert, A Traveller's History of France, Interlink Books, 1997.Dictionary of World Biography, edited by Frank N. Magill, Salem Press/Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998.Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, The Dryden Translation, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1990.
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