Georges Le Rider
| Georges Le Rider | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Georges Charles Le Rider 27 January 1928 Saint-Hernin (Finistère) |
| Died | 3 July 2014 (aged 86) Givors (Rhône) |
| Occupation | Historian Librarian Administrator |
Georges Charles Le Rider (27 January 1928 – 3 July 2014) was a French historian, librarian and administrator, a specialist in Greek numismatics, who headed the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. He had a filial relationship with Henri Arnold Seyrig who became and remained his mentor.
After he was admitted to the École normale supérieure in 1948, Le Rider obtained his agrégation de lettres classiques in 1952. A member of the École française d'Athènes from 1952 to 1955, he joined the French Institute of Archeology of the Near East, where he stayed until 1958. While living in Athens his son Jacques Le Rider was born; Jacques was to become a renowned Germanist. On his return from Beirut, he entered the Bibliothèque nationale de France as curator of the Cabinet des Médailles, a department he then headed from 1961. In 1975 he left the Cabinet des Médailles to become the deputy head of the Bibliothèque nationale, a position he held until his appointment in 1981 at the head of the Institut français d'études anatoliennes in Istanbul.
Concurrent with his work with these several institutions, he pursued a teacher career, first at the École pratique des hautes études, then at the University of Lille and at the university Paris-IV, before being elected professor of economic and monetary history of the Hellenistic East at the College de France in 1993. He retired in 1998.
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