List of Paleographers Born Before 1900

This article contains a list of scholars of paleography. Paleography is the study of ancient writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts. The study made significant progress in the 17th-18th centuries. Jean Mabillon (1632-1707) is often considered the “father of paleography”.

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1609-1685 – Luc d’Achery (French)

1626-1697 – John Aubrey (English)

1632-1707 – Jean Mabillon (French) – Father of Paleography

1655-1741 – Bernard de Montfaucon (French)

1672-1726 – Humfrey Wanley (English)

1785-1847 – Tommaso Gasparotti (Italian)

1796-1876 – Pavel Stroyev (Russian)

1798-1884 – Léon Lacabane (French)

1801-1870 – Edelstand du Méril (French)

1801-1873 – Frederic Madden (English)

1805-1886 – Natalis de Wailly (French)

1808-1895 – Eduard de Muralt (Swiss/German)

1811-1881 – Henry Coxe (English)

1812-1880 – Izmail Sreznevsky (Russian)

1813-1888 – Charles Schoebel (French)

1815-1897 – Louis de Mas Latrie (French)

1819-1897 – Wilhelm Wattenbach (German)

1826-1910 – Léopold Victor Delisle (French)

1831-1902 – Louis Blancard (French)

1840-1929 – Edward Maunde Thompson (British)

1843-1925 – Victor Gardthausen (German)

1848-1925 – Gregorios Bernardakis (Greek)

1850-1925 – Élie Berger (French)

1851-1933 – Émile Chatelain (French)

1852-1930 – John Gwenogvryn Evans (Welsh)

1853-1935 – Paul Fournier (French)

1856-1935 – Ioan Bianu (Austrian/Romanian)

1856-1938 – Henri Lebègue (French)

1858-1937 – Wallace Lindsay (Scottish)

1859-1928 – Leon Kellner (English)

1860-1931 – Yefim Karsky (Belarusian/Russian)

1860-1931 – Karl Wessely (Austrian)

1860-1949 – Emma Elizabeth Thoyts (English)

1861-1907 – Ludwig Traube (German)

1861-1930 – Maurice Prou (French)

1873-1955 – Dmitry Abramovich (Soviet)

1874-1948 – Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum (Hungarian/American)

1877-1927 – Wang Guowei (Chinese)

1879-1969 – Elias Avery Lower (American)

1879-1982 – Charles Samaran (French)

1882-1961 – Hilary Jenkinson (British)

1884-1964 – Paul Lehmann (German)

1885-1930 – R. D. Banerji (Indian)

1889-1976 – Vivian Hunter Galbraith (English)

1889-1977 – Viktor Novak (Yugoslav)

1891-1971 – James Conway Davies (Welsh)

1892-1956 – István Hajnal (Hungarian)

1893-1965 – Mikhail Tikhomirov (Soviet)

1894-1978 – Robert Devreesse (French)

1896-1984 – Yu Xingwu (Chinese)

1898-1979 – Kenneth Willis Clark (Greek)

1899-1976 – Charles Perrat (French)

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References:

[1] – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Palaeographers. Accessed 3 May 2019.

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