Georges Perrot

Georges Perrot ( born November 12, 1832 in Villeneuve -Saint -Georges, † June 30, 1914 in Paris) was a French classical archaeologist, historian and epigraphists. With his student Maxime Collignon he was among the founders of scientific archeology in France.

Georges Perrot began in 1852 at the École Normale Supérieure with the study. From 1855 to 1857 he was a member of the École française d' Athènes and worked in Crete, Thasos. After returning to France Perrot taught from 1858 as a secondary school in Angoulême, Orléans, Versailles and the Paris Lycée Louis- le -Grand. 1861 entrusted Napoleon III. Perrot with a mission for the exploration of Caesars bosporanischem campaign against Pharnakes II. During this project he put in Ankara Monumentum Ancyranum completely free and put a person designated by Theodor Mommsen as an exemplary work Edition ago, the beyond in the art high recognition found. He also visited Bogazköy ( Hattusa ), the capital of the Hittites, by which he became one of the co-discoverer of the Hittite culture. The docteur ès lettres doctorate was in 1867, in it he devoted himself to public and private law in the polis of Athens.

1868 Perrot was appointed professor at the École normale supérieure, 1874 he was appointed professor at the École pratique des hautes études. In 1876 he became a professor of archeology at the Sorbonne. He sat through the spin-off of archeology as an independent academic discipline of classical philologist. He was based at that time internationally trendsetting German Classical Studies, which was not always easy after the war of 1870/ 71 in France. However, unlike in Germany and England were not so much technical aspects of the focus of research in which they put more emphasis on the cultural and political contexts. From 1883 to 1903 Perrot Director of the École normale supérieure was.

Perrot's main work was the ten-volume Histoire de l'art dans l' antiquité, which he wrote 1882-1914 with the architect Charles Chipiez. Together they created a comprehensive ancient art history, including the history of building. It was a hitherto not comparable monumental work, which also included the ancient Middle Eastern cultures as the basis of the Greco- Roman world. Perrot was influenced by the work of the religious scientist Friedrich Max Müller, whose works he translated into French and from English to some extent.

Since 1874 Perrot was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, since 1904, he led this perpétuel as Secrétaire. In addition, he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.