Perrot, Georges

Date born: November 12, 1832

Place Born: Seine-et-Oise, France [Bates says Villeneuve-Saint-Georges]

Date died: June 30, 1914

Place died: Paris, France

Classicist and archaeologist. Perrot attended the Charlemagne Lyceum and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. While on an expedition to Asia Minor in 1861 and 1862, he discovered a Greek translation of a document, the Monumentum Cyranum, the Greek version of the Index rerum gestarum divi Augusti, known as "The Political Testament of the Emperor Augustus." He published his findings as Souvenirs d'un voyage en Asie mineur in 1863. It became a major find and set Perrot's reputation. He was appointed professor of rhetoric at Angouleme in Orleans and the Lyceum of Louis le Grande between 1868 and 1870.In 1871 he was appointed a master at the Ecole Normale Supérieure where he had been a student. In 1874 [NYT says 1878] Perrot was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Perrot was appointed to the Sorbonne in 1875. Beginning in 1882, he Charles Chipiez (1882–1914) issued their monumental Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquité. He left the Sorbonne to be director of the Ecole in 1888 [Bates say 1883]. At the École his teachings influenced the young Maxime Collignon. Perrot retired from the Ecole in 1904, serving as the permanent secretary at the Académie from 1904 until his death. Perrot became editor of the journal Revue archéologique.

Home Country:  France

Sources:   [obituaries:] "Death of M. G. Perrot." Times (London) July 1, 1914, p. 7; "Noted Archaeologist Dies, Georges Perrot Was Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions." New York Times July 1, 1914, p. 22; H. N. F. "Georges Perrot." American Journal of Archaeology 18 no. 3 (July-September 1914): 383-384.

Bibliography: A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria. Chipiez, Charles,; Armstrong, Walter, London, Chapman and Hall; New York, A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1884;

A history of art in ancient Egypt, Chipiez, Charles,; Armstrong, Walter, London, Chapman and Hall, limited, 1883

History of art in Sardinia, Judæa, Syria, and Asia Minor. Chipiez, Charles,; Gonino, I., London, Chapman and Hall; New York, A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1890

History of art in Phoenicia and its dependencies, Chipiez, Charles,; Armstrong, Walter, London, Chapman and Hall, 1885

History of art in Phrygia, Lydia, Caria, and Lycia. London, Chapman and Hall; New York, A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1892

History of art in Persia; London, Chapman and Hall; New York, A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1892

Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquité Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1882-1914

History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art, London, Chapman and Hall, 1894

Mélanges Perrot; recueil de mémoires concernant l'archéologie classique, la littérature et l'histoire anciennes, dedié à Georges Perrot ... à l'occasion du 50e anniversaire de son entrée à l'École normale supérieure. Paris, A. Fontemoing, 1903

Praxitèle. Paris, H. Laurens 1904

Subject's name: Georges Perrot