Louis Robert (historian)


Louis Robert was a professor of Greek history and Epigraphy at the Collège de France, and author of many volumes and articles on Greek epigraphy, numismatics, and the historical geography of Greek lands. Robert studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1924-1927, was a member of the École française d'Athènes from 1927-1932, and taught at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris from 1932. He was made full professor at the Collège de France in 1939, where he remained until his retirement in 1974. He continued to publish on Greek epigraphy with his wife, Jeanne Robert, as co-author, as he had done since their marriage and until his death in 1985.

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