Jean Hubert (12 June 1902 – 1 July 1994) was a 20th-century French
art historian
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
, specializing in
religious architecture.
The son and grandsons of chartists, Jean Hubert himself became a student at the
École Nationale des Chartes where he supported in 1925 a thesis entituled ''L'abbaye Notre–Dame de Déols (917–1627)'' which earned him the degree of archivist paleographer.
He became director of the Departmental Archives of
Seine-et-Marne in 1926 and held this position until 1955.
He then succeeded
Marcel Aubert
Marcel Aubert (April 9, 1884 – December 28, 1962) was a French art historian.
Life
Marcel Aubert was the son of an architect who died when he was only seven years old. Following his studies at the Lycée Condorcet, he entered the École Nat ...
in the chair of medieval archeology at the École des Chartes (1955–1973).
Nécrologie dans la ''Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes
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Jean Hubert was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1963. He was also a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France.
Main publications
His bibliography includes 308 items including
*1967: ''L'Europe des invasions'', with Jean Porcher
Jean may refer to:
People
* Jean (female given name)
* Jean (male given name)
* Jean (surname)
Fictional characters
* Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character
* Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations
* Je ...
and Wolfgang Fritz Volbach, Éditions Gallimard, series ''L'Univers des formes''.
*1968: ''L'Empire carolingien'', with Jean Porcher and Wolfgang Fritz Volbach, Gallimard, series ''L'Univers des formes'', 1968.
*1985: ''L'Abbatiale Notre Dame de Déols''
References
External links
Jean Hubert
on data.bnf.fr
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1902 births
1994 deaths
People from Indre
École Nationale des Chartes alumni
French art historians
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Officiers of the Légion d'honneur