Gabriel Millet
Gabriel Millet | |
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| Born | 17 April 1867 |
| Died | 8 May 1953 (aged 86) Paris |
| Occupation(s) | Archaeologist Historian |
Gabriel Millet (17 April 1867 – 8 May 1953) was a French archaeologist and historian.
Biography
After he passed his agrégation of history in 1891, Gabriel Millet became a member of the French School at Athens, then director of the École pratique des hautes études in religious sciences in 1899, and professor at the Collège de France in 1927.
A voyager, he travelled throughout Europe, Greece, Macedonia, the Balkans. In 1906 Gabriel Millet, V. R. Petković and Josef Strzygowski began research on Serbian painting, which they "acclaimed it to be among the finest creations of medieval Europe".[1]
Millet was the author of numerous books on Byzantine art. In 1930, in collaboration with Louis Bréhier, he led an archaeological mission to Mount Athos. He founded the series "Archives d'Athos" at the College de France, under the patronage of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Academy of Athens. It was the French Government who had given Gabriel Millet the two Serbian archaeological missions of 1934 and 1935 that resulted in a book entitled L'Art de la Serbie. All practical difficulties, transportation, supplies, scaffolding, were ironed out in that journey by energy and kindness of professor of art Djuradj Bošković, his wife and colleagues, including Milan Kašanin.
External links
- Gabriel Millet (1867-1953) on Index of Christian Art
- Millet, Gabriel in the Dictionary of Art Historians
- Éloge funèbre de M. Gabriel Millet, membre ordinaire
- Obituary
- Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Gabriel Millet, membre de l'Académie
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