Jean Hubert (archaeologist)
Jean Hubert (12 June 1902 – 1 July 1994) was a 20th-century French art historian, specializing in religious architecture.
Jean Hubert | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 June 1902 |
| Died | 1 July 1994 (aged 92) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Art historian |
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
- 1967: L'Europe des invasions, with Jean Porcher and Wolfgang Fritz Volbach, Éditions Gallimard, series L'Univers des formes.
- 1968: L'Empire carolingien, with Jean Porcher and Wolfgang Fritz Volbach, Gallimard, series L'Univers des formes, 1968.
- 1985: L'Abbatiale Notre Dame de Déols
References
- Les trois vies de Jean Hubert (1902–1994) Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, Hommage du 20 novembre 2003, Melun, Hôtel du département, published in Actes des journées d'études de Seine-et-Marne (20-21 novembre 2003), rencontres départementales du patrimoine, Journées Jean Hubert n°1, 2006, (p. 13–20).
- Nécrologie dans la Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes