Henri Seyrig
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Born | Henri Arnold Seyrig 10 November 1895 Héricourt, Haute-Saône, France |
Died | 21 January 1973 Neuchâtel, Switzerland | (aged 77)
Occupation(s) | Archaeologist, historian and numismatist |
Spouse | Hermine de Saussure |
Children | Delphine 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
Career
In 1929, Seyrig was called recommended by the master of Levantine archaeology
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.
- 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.
- Seyrig, Henri (1953). "Antiquités Syriennes 53 (suite): Antiquités de la Nécropole d'Émèse". Syria. XXX (1–2): 12–50.
- Seyrig, Henri (1959). "Antiquités Syriennes 76: Caractères de l'histoire d'Émèse". Syria (in French). 36 (3–4).
References
- ISBN 2914266049
- ISBN 2914266049
- ISBN 2914266049
- ISBN 2914266049
- ^ Medals: Royal Numismatic Society, numismatics.org.uk; accessed 10 March 2017.
External links
- Profile, production-scientifique.bnf.fr; accessed 21 February 2016.(in French)
- Henri Seyrig on data.bnf.fr