Gustave Schlumberger

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Gustave Schlumberger

Gustave Schlumberger (born  October 17, 1844 in Guebwiller , Alsace , †  May 9, 1929 in Paris ) was a French historian , Byzantinist and numismatist .

As a winner of a scholarship, Schlumberger studied medicine in Paris, during the Franco-German War 1870–1871 he was employed as a medic. After graduating, however, he did not settle down as a doctor, but devoted himself to historical, numismatic and seal studies. Travels took him to Rome, the Middle East and Germany. His main research interests were the Crusades and the Byzantine Empire . In 1884 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as the successor to the archaeologist Albert Dumont and was a member of the Société des antiquaires de France . From 1878 he was also a Knight of the Legion of Honor . In 1906 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in 1924 of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Numismatique de l'Orient Latin. 2 volumes. Leroux, Paris 1878–1882, (digital copies: Volume 1 ; Volume 2 ).
  • Les Iles des Princes. Lévy, Paris 1884, ( digitized ).
  • Un empereur byzantine au dixième siècle. Nicephore Phocas. Firmin-Didot, Paris 1890, ( digitized version ).
  • L'Épopée byzantine à la fin du dixième siècle. 3 volumes. Hachette, Paris 1896–1905, (digital copies: Volume 1 ; Volume 2 ; Volume 3 ).
  • Renaud de Chatillon. Prince d'Antioche Seigneur de la terre d'Outre-Jourdain. Plon, Paris 1898, ( digitized version ).
  • Campagnes du roi Amaury Ier de Jérusalem en Egypt, au XIIe siècle. Plon, Paris 1906, ( digitized version ).
  • Fin de la domination franque en Syrie après les dernières croisades. Prize de Saint-Jean-d'Acre en l'an 1291 par l'Armée du Soudan d'Égypte. Plon, Paris 1914, ( digitized version ).
  • Récits De Byzance Et Des Croisades. 2 volumes. Plon, Paris 1916–1922, (collection of articles).
  • Byzance et les croisades. Pages médiévales. Geuthner, Paris 1927, ( digitized ).
  • Mes souvenirs 1844–1928. 2 volumes. Plon, Paris 1934, (posthumous).
  • Lettres de deux amis. Une correspondance between Pénélope S. Delta et Gustave Schlumberger, suivie de quelques lettres de Gabriel Millet. Introduction et notes de X. Lefcoparidis. Préface d' Arré Mirambel . Institut Français d'Athènes, Athens 1962.

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SURNAME Schlumberger, Gustave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Guebwiller
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1929
Place of death Paris