Jean Lassus

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Jean Lassus (born June 17, 1903 in Bulgnéville , † October 9, 1990 in Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne ) was a French Christian archaeologist .

Life

He attended the École normal supérieure and École française de Rome . In 1929 he undertook excavations in Tipasa . He joined the Resistance and was deported to the Dachau concentration camp in 1944 .

From 1945 to 1952 he was Professor of Art and Civilization of Byzantium at the University of Strasbourg . In 1952 he was appointed rector of the Franco-Vietnamese university in Hanoi and then in Saigon. He became professor at the University of Algiers and director of antiquities in Algeria in 1955 and remained so until 1964. From 1964 until his retirement in 1969 he was professor of early Christian archeology at the Sorbonne . He was buried in the Gentilly cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

  • Inventaire archéologique de la region au nord-est de Hama. 1. Texts. Avec une carte hors texte et 216 plans et croquis . Damascus 1935, OCLC 633300781 .
  • Inventaire archéologique de la region au nord-est de Hama. 2. Planches . Damascus 1936, OCLC 312491918 .
  • Reflections on the technique of the mosaic . Algiers 1957, OCLC 963482836 .
  • Early Christian and Byzantine world. Architecture, sculpture, mosaics, frescoes, ivory art, metalwork . Gütersloh 1974, OCLC 716339846 .

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