Élie Berger (1850 in

Beaucourt Beaucourt () is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France. The archivist and palaeographer Élie Berger (1850–1925) was born in Beaucourt. Population Literature ''Beaucourt Revisite ...

– 1925 in Paris) was a French

palaeographer Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...

and

archivist An archivist is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to Document, records and archives determined to have long-term value. The records maintained by an archivist c ...

. Graduated an archivist and palaeographer of the

École Nationale des Chartes The École Nationale des Chartes (, literally National School of Charters) is a French ''grande école'' and a constituent college of Université PSL, specialising in the historical sciences. It was founded in 1821, and was located initially at ...

in 1876, Élie Berger was first a member of the

École française de Rome The École française de Rome (EFR) is a French research institute for history, archaeology, and the social sciences; overseen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a division of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et ...

from 1876 to 1880, then a custodian at the Archives nationales of France from 1880 to 1897, when he was elected to the Chair of palaeography of the École des Chartes. A Docteur ès lettres in 1895, he was elected a member of the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions ( epig ...

in 1905..

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Berger
on data.bnf.fr
Obituary by H.-François Delaborde
on Persée
Obituary by Charles-Victor Langlois
on Persée {{DEFAULTSORT:Berger, Elie 1850 births 1925 deaths French palaeographers French archivists Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres École Nationale des Chartes alumni