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Biography
Jean Hubert (12 June 1902 – 1 July 1994) was a 20th-century French art historian, specializing in religious architecture.
The son and grandsons of chartists, Jean Hubert himself became a student at the École Nationale des Chartes where he supported in 1925 a thesis entituled L'abbaye Notre–Dame de Déols (917–1627) which earned him the degree of archivist paleographer.
He became director of the Departmental Archives of Seine-et-Marne in 1926 and held this position until 1955.
He then succeeded Marcel Aubert in the chair of medieval archeology at the École des Chartes (1955–1973).
Jean Hubert was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1963. He was also a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France.
Main publications
His bibliography includes 308 items including
- 1967: L'Europe des invasions, with Jean Porcher and Wolfgang Fritz Volbach, Éditions Gallimard, series L'Univers des formes.
- 1968: L'Empire carolingien, with Jean Porcher and Wolfgang Fritz Volbach, Gallimard, series L'Univers des formes, 1968.
- 1985: L'Abbatiale Notre Dame de Déols