Guillaume de Jerphanion
Guillaume de Jerphanion SJ (born March 3, 1877 in Pontevès , † October 22, 1948 in Rome ) was a French epigraphist , geographer , photographer , linguist , archaeologist and Byzantinist .
He worked as an officer-interpreter for the Légion d'Orient ( Armenian Հայկական լեգեոնը ) in Cyprus in 1918 and became a professor and member of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. In 1947 he was elected a member of the French Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres .
He was the first scientist who carried out systematic explorations in Cappadocia and published the results in numerous publications. Between 1925 and 1942 he published the monumental work Une nouvelle province de l'art byzantin, les églises rupestres de Cappadoce (“A new field of Byzantine art, the rock churches of Cappadocia”) in two volumes with text and three volumes with images.
Works
- La Légion d'Orient, Études . 1919.
- Une nouvelle province de l'art Byzantin, les églises rupestres de Cappadoce . 5 vols. 1925-42.
- La Voix des monuments. Notes et études d'archéologie chrétienne . 1930.
- La Voix des monuments. Étude d'archéologie. Nouvelle série . 1938.
Web links
- Literature by and about Guillaume de Jerphanion in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Guillaume de Jerphanion . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
- editions-harmattan.fr
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jerphanion, Guillaume de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jerphanion, Guglielmo de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French linguist and Byzantinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pontevès , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1948 |
| Place of death | Rome , Italy |