Ernest Babelon
Ernest Charles François Babelon (born 7 November 1854 in Sarrey, Département Haute-Marne; died 3 January 1924 in Paris) was a French numismatist and classical archaeologist.
Education and career
Ernest Babelon trained from 1874 to 1878 to be an
First World War he was responsible for sending the artistic treasures of the museum away for safekeeping and for gathering them back after the war. In 1902 he received an additional appointment as Lecturer for Numismatics and Glyptics, in 1908 he was appointed Professor with the chair for the Cours de numismatique antique et médiévale (course in ancient and medieval numismatics) at the Collège de France. That same year he was also appointed President of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. His son Jean Babelon
was also Director of the Cabinet des Médailles.
Babelon devoted himself initially to
Asia Minor
also remains incomplete. To this day the work is important to scholarship because of its comprehensiveness.
At the end of the First World War he intervened in the political discourse about the
military protectorate
, but misquoted Paul Vidal de la Blache.
Awards
Babelon was esteemed and honoured many times. For his service to the Cabinet des Médailles he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. In 1899 he was recognised with the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society and in 1922 with the Archer M. Huntington Medal.
Publications (selected)
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- Monnaies de la Republique Romaine (Coinage of the Roman Republic). 2 Vols. Paris, 1885.
- Les monnaies d'or d'Athènes (The Gold Coinage of Athens) Rev. des Etudes grecques, 1889, I. 187.
- Les Rois de Syrie, d’Arménie, et de Commagène. Catlogue de monnaies grecques de la Bibliothèque Nationale. (The Kings of Armenia and Commagene. Catalogue of the Greek Coins of the Bibliothèque Nationale) Paris, 1890.
- Les Perses Achéménides (The Achaemenid Persians). Paris, 1893.
- Carthage. Ernest Leroux, Paris 1896.
- La collection Waddington au cabinet des médailles (The Waddington Collection in the Cabinet des Médailles). RN.Paris, 1897-1898.
- Numismatique d'Edessa (Numismatics of Edessa). Paris, 1904. link
- Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines. (Account of Greek and Roman Coinage) 11 Volumes. Leroux, Paris 1901–1933.
- Recueil général des monnaies grecques d’Asie mineure (General Record of the Greek Coinage of Asia Minor), began by William Henry Waddington; continued and completed by Ernest Babelon and Théodore Reinach. Leroux, Paris 1908–1925. link
- Le Rhin dans l'histoire. (The Rhine in History) Leroux, Paris 1916–1917.
- Bd. 1: L'antiquité: Gaulois et Germains. (Antiquity: Gauls and Germani) 1916.
- Bd. 2: Les Francs de l'Est: Français et Allemands. (The Franks and the East: French and Germans) 1917.
See also L' Oeuvre numismatique d'Ernest Babelon, by A. Dieudonné (Paris : Feuardent Frères, 1924)
Bibliography
- Helmut Schubert. Babelon, Ernest. in ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8, pp. 41–42.
External links
- Biography at sacra-moneta.com (French)
- Jean-Jacques Barthélemy Garde du Cabinet du roi (1745/1754-1795), by Dominique Gérin, INC Compte rendu 46, 1999, pp. 54-63 Archived 3 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine
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