Jean Hubert (archaeologist) explained

Birth Date:12 June 1902
Birth Place:Ardentes (Indre), France
Death Place:Paris, France
Occupation:Art historian

Jean Hubert (12 June 1902 – 1 July 1994) was a 20th-century French art historian, specializing in religious architecture.

The son and grandsons of chartists, Jean Hubert himself became a student at the École Nationale des Chartes where he supported in 1925 a thesis entituled L'abbaye Notre–Dame de Déols (917–1627) which earned him the degree of archivist paleographer.

He became director of the Departmental Archives of Seine-et-Marne in 1926 and held this position until 1955.[1] He then succeeded Marcel Aubert in the chair of medieval archeology at the École des Chartes (1955–1973).[2]

Jean Hubert was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1963. He was also a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France.

Main publications

His bibliography includes 308 items including

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://archives.seine-et-marne.fr/library/77d8aff5-62c0-43fe-839e-8b20a13bb929-Jean-HUBERT.pdf Les trois vies de Jean Hubert (1902–1994)
  2. http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1995_num_153_2_450793 Nécrologie dans la Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes