Georges Perrot

Georges Perrot (1832–1914) was a French classical scholar and archaeologist. A member of the French School at Athens, he explored Asia Minor in 1861 and published the inscriptions and monuments of Galatia and Bithynia, then taught at the Sorbonne and from 1883 directed the École normale supérieure. With the architect Charles Chipiez he undertook a History of Art in Antiquity that appeared in ten volumes between 1882 and 1914, covering Egypt, Chaldaea and Assyria, Phoenicia and Cyprus, Judaea, Persia, Phrygia, Lydia and Greece, and translated into English as it appeared. He was permanent secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions and a leading figure in French archaeology for forty years.