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Ernest Babelon
Ernest Charles François Babelon (born 7 November 1854 in Sarrey, Département Haute-Marne; died 3 January 1924 in Paris) was a French Numismatist and classical archaeologist.
Education and Career.
Ernest Babelon trained from 1874 to 1878 to be an archivist at the École Nationale des Chartes. He wrote his thesis on "Les bourgeois du roi au Moyen Âge". From 1878 he worked for the Cabinet des Médailles. With Salomon Reinach he led excavations in North Africa in 1883. In 1890 he was
: "Les Francs de l'Est: Français et Allemands." (The Franks and the East: French and Germans) 1917.
See also "L' Oeuvre numismatique d'Ernest Babelon", by A. Dieudonné (Paris : Feuardent Frères, 1924)
Bibliography.
- Helmut Schubert. "Babelon, Ernest." in Peter Kuhlmann, Helmuth Schneider (Ed.): "Geschichte der Altertumswissenschaften. Biographisches Lexikon" (= "Der Neue Pauly." Supplement Vol. 6). Metzler, Stuttgart. 2012,