Gustave Schlumberger
Gustave Schlumberger ( born October 17, 1844 in Guebwiller, Alsace, † May 9, 1929 in Paris) was a French historian and numismatist Byzantinist.
As the winner of a scholarship Schlumberger studied medicine in Paris, during the Franco-German War 1870-1871 he was working as a medic. After graduation, he did not let himself as a physician, but devoted himself to historical, numismatic and seal manifested 's studies. Travels took him to Rome, in the Middle East and Germany. His research interests were the Crusades and the Byzantine Empire. He became in 1884 a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres as the successor of the archaeologist Albert Dumont and was a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France. Since 1878 he was also Knight of the Legion of Honour. In 1906 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.