Louis Bréhier

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Louis René Bréhier (August 5, 1868 – October 13, 1951) was a French historian who specialized in Byzantine studies. He was a native of Brest, and was brother to philosopher Emile Bréhier (1876–1952).

Biography

He studied history and literature in Paris, where one of his instructors was historian Charles Diehl (1859–1944). Afterwards he taught classes in Reims, and in 1899 received his doctorate at the Sorbonne with the dissertation Le schisme oriental au XI^e siècle (The Eastern Schism in the 11th Century). From 1899 to 1938 he was professor of ancient and medieval history in Clermont-Ferrand. After travels by the world during years, he settled in Reims after World War II and died in this city in 1951.

Bréhier's best known work was the three-volume Le Monde byzantin (The Byzantine World). He was a specialist of Byzantine iconography, and in 1924 published an influential treatise on Byzantine art titled L'Art byzantin. He was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, and in 1937 was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens.

Selected publications

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Louis Bréhier

De Graecorum judiciorum origine (1899)
Le Schisme oriental du 11^e siècle (1899)
La Querelle des images (1904)
L'Église et l'Orient au Moyen Âge : les croisades
Le travail historique (1908)
L'Auvergne (1912)
La Cathédrale de Reims. Une œuvre française, Paris 1916
L'art chrétien, son développement iconographique des origines à nos jours (1918)
Les églises romanes
L'homme dans la sculpture romane
Études archéologiques : Le sarcophage des Carmes-Déchaux ; Les anciens inventaires de la cathédrale : Le Bible historiée de Clermont
Les survivances du rite impérial romain: à propos des rites shintoïstes (1920)
L'Art byzantin, Paris 1924
L'Art en France, des invasions barbares à l'époque romane, Paris 1930
Le Monde byzantin, Paris 1947-50 (3 Volumes)
- Volume 1: Vie et mort de Byzance
- Volume 2: Les Institutions de l'Empire byzantin
- Volume 3: La civilisation byzantine

translation or collaboration

Histoire anonyme de la première croisade, éditée et traduite par Louis Bréhier, (Anonymous history of the First Crusade, edited and translated into French by Louis Bréhier), Paris 1924

References

This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.

External links

(German language)

Publications by Louis Bréhier in the OPAC Regesta Imperii
Fonts in the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 34495869 LCCN: n85042588 ISNI: 0000 0001 0886 4012 GND: 11646979X BNF: cb121581701

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