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Henri Arnold Seyrig (French:; 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.
Henri Arnold Seyrig, né le 10 novembre 1895 à Héricourt ( Haute-Saône) et mort le 21 janvier 1973 à Neuchâtel ( Suisse ), est un archéologue français. Membre de l' Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, il est surtout connu pour avoir occupé le poste de directeur général des Antiquités de Syrie et du Liban sous le mandat ...
Jan 25, 1973 · PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 24—Dr. Henri Seyrig, an archeologist who served as cultural attache of the Free French delegation to the United States in World War II, died yesterday in Neuchatel,...
Apr 13, 2016 · Henri Seyrig began the French excavations in Palmyra in 1929. A fascinating figure, later to be named head of the direction des Musées de France by André Malraux, and a founder of the Institut français d’archéologie du Proche-Orient (now the IFPO), the UL has almost a dozen books by Seyrig or with his contributions.
Henri Seyrig a pourtant joué un rôle essentiel dans la création et le rayonnement des institutions archéologiques françaises : directeur général des Antiquités de Syrie et du Liban sous le mandat français, fondateur de l’Institut français d’archéologie de Beyrouth, directeur des Musées de France, ami du Cabinet des Médailles de ...
- Frédérique Duyrat, Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Jean-Marie Dentzer, Olivier Picard
- 2016
Sep 1, 2015 · In 1930, Henri Seyrig, a young scholar who had been appointed director of antiquities in Syria the year before, had organised for the people who lived in the ruins of Palmyra to relocate to a...
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Henri Seyrig (1895-1973) deeply marked archaeological research for a good fifty years and was at the origin of its development, which is still being pursued in the 21st century, long after his death. In 1929, he was appointed director of the Service of Antiquities (until 1941), then, from 1946 to 1967, director of the new French Archaeological ...
