Henri Seyrig

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Henri Seyrig
Born
Henri Arnold Seyrig

(1895-11-10)10 November 1895
Died21 January 1973(1973-01-21) (aged 77)
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Occupation(s)Archaeologist, historian and numismatist
SpouseHermine de Saussure
ChildrenDelphine Seyrig

Henri Arnold Seyrig (French: [sɛʁiɡ]; 10 November 1895 – 21 January 1973) was a French archaeologist, numismatist, and historian. He was the general director of antiquities of Syria and Lebanon since 1929, and director, for more than twenty years, of the Institute of Archaeology of Beirut.[1]

Early life

Henri was born in Héricourt, France to a liberal bourgeois industrial family. His family moved to Mulhouse when his father joined the family business, he was schooled in German. He was later sent to a French Protestant private boarding school in Normandy, Ecole des Roches, Seyrig continued his education by reading English at Oxford until 1914.[2]

During World War I, Seyrig fought at

Salonika where he had his first encounter with archeology and left his family business. He then attended the Sorbonne where he presented a thesis about the Homeric House and in 1922 was admitted to the French School at Athens where he spent seven years as a member and was promoted to secretary general's office.[3]

Career

In 1929, Seyrig was called recommended by the master of Levantine archaeology

Free French Government until the end of the war then he returned to Beirut.[4]

Throughout the 1950s/60s he was a visiting scholar invited by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, living part of the year in the United States. In 1967 he left Beirut and retired in Switzerland and continued with his wife, Hermine de Saussure, to spend part of the year in Princeton. Their children were actress Delphine Seyrig and composer Francis Seyrig.

He was awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1961.[5]

Publications

  • Seyrig, Henri (June 1952). "A Helmet from Emisa". Archaeology. 5 (2). Archaeological Institute of America: 66–69.
    JSTOR 41663047. Closed access icon
  • Seyrig, Henri (1952). "Le Casque d'Émèse". Les Annales Archéologiques de Syrie. II (1–2). Direction Générale des Antiquités de Syrie: 101–08.
  • Seyrig, Henri (1952). "Antiquités Syriennes 53: Antiquités de la Nécropole d'Émèse (1re partie)". Syria. XXIX (3–4): 204–250.
    JSTOR 4390311. Archived from the original on 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2019-09-13. (in French) Free access icon
  • Seyrig, Henri (1953). "Antiquités Syriennes 53 (suite): Antiquités de la Nécropole d'Émèse". Syria. XXX (1–2): 12–50.
    doi:10.3406/syria.1953.4859. (in French) Free access icon
  • Seyrig, Henri (1959). "Antiquités Syriennes 76: Caractères de l'histoire d'Émèse". Syria (in French). 36 (3–4). Free access icon

References

External links

  • Profile, production-scientifique.bnf.fr; accessed 21 February 2016.(in French)
  • Henri Seyrig on
    data.bnf.fr