Gustave Schlumberger
Léon Gustave Schlumberger (17 October 1844 – 9 May 1929) was a French historian and numismatist who specialised in the era of the
Cabinet des Médailles a department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris
.
Biography
He was born in
Societé des Antiquaires de France.[2] In 1884 he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. In 1903 he was awarded the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society.[3]
He was a friend of Edith Wharton, who described him as looking like 'a descendent of one of the Gauls on the arch of Titus'.[4] He also corresponded extensively with the Greek writer Penelope Delta, which correspondence influenced several of her historical novels set in Byzantine times.
He was an ultra-conservative, an active supporter of the
Académie française in 1908, Proust, who disliked him, described him as a 'disabused pachyderm'.[8] In his memoirs, Schlumberger, who received a passing mention in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu,[9] described the novelist as 'bizarre' and described his books as 'admired by some, and quite incomprehensible to others, including myself'.[10]
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres has created an award in his name, the Gustave Schlumberger Prize. Winners have included Joshua Prawer and Denys Pringle.
Bibliography
- 1878-1882 Numismatique de l'Orient Latin (Paris)
- 1884 Les iles des Princes (Calmann Lévy, Paris) - a history of the Princes' Islands under the Byzantines.
- 1890 Un empereur byzantin au dixieme siecle: Nicephore Phocas (Paris) - a biography of the emperor Nikephoros II.
- 1896-1905 L’Epopée byzantine à la fin du dixième siècle (Hachette, Paris, 3 volumes) - a study of Byzantine epic poetry.
- 1898 Renaud de Châtillon, prince d’Antioche, seigneur de la terre d’Outre-Jourdain (Plon, Paris) - a biography of the crusader Raynald of Châtillon.
- 1906 Campagnes du roi Amaury Ier de Jérusalem en Egypte, au XIIe siècle
- 1914 Prise de Saint-Jean-d'Acre, en l'an 1291
- 1926 Le siege la prise et le sac de Constantinople par les Turcs en 1453, 8e Ed., Paris: Librairie Plon.
- 1922/23 Récits De Byzance Et Des Croisades (Plon, Paris)
- 1927 Byzance et les croisades (Lib. Paul Geuthner, Paris)
- 1934 Mes Souvenirs 1844-1928 (Plon, Paris) - posthumously published recollections of life in the Third Republic
- 1962 Lettres De Deux Amis (Institut Français, Athens) - correspondence between Schlumberger and the novelist Penelope Delta.
References
- ^ Zacour, N. P.; Hazard, H. W. (ed.), The impact of the Crusades on Europe (A History of the Crusades, volume, VI) (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), page 354. [1]
- ISBN 3-88309-058-1.
- ^ Royal Numismatic Society: Past winners of the Medal Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance, 1934.
- ^ Shari Benstock, Women of the Left Bank, (University of Texas Press, 1987) page 42.
- ^ William C. Carter, Marcel Proust: A Life (Yale University Press, 2002), page 247.
- ^ cited in Edmund White, Proust (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999), page 11.
- ^ Frederick John Harris, Friend and Foe: Marcel Proust and André Gide, (University Press of America, 2002) page 63.
- ISBN 978-0-14-118033-5.
- ^ William C. Carter, Marcel Proust: A Life (Yale University Press, 2002), page 94.
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