Jean Hubert (archaeologist)

Jean Hubert (12 June 1902 – 1 July 1994) was a 20th-century French art historian, specializing in religious architecture.

Jean Hubert
Born12 June 1902
Ardentes (Indre)
Died1 July 1994(1994-07-01) (aged 92)
Paris
OccupationArt historian

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.[1]

He then succeeded Marcel Aubert in the chair of medieval archeology at the École des Chartes (1955–1973).[2]

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 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
  1. Les trois vies de Jean Hubert (1902–1994), Hommage du 20 novembre 2003, Melun, Hôtel du département, published in Actes des journées d'études de Seine-et-Marne (20-21 novembre 2003), rencontres départementales du patrimoine, Journées Jean Hubert n°1, 2006, (p. 13–20).
  2. Nécrologie dans la Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes
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