Georges Perrot

Born(1832-11-12)12 November 1832

Died30 June 1914(1914-06-30) (aged 81)

Disciplinearchaeology

InstitutionsSorbonne
École Normale Supérieure

Georges Perrot
Born	(1832-11-12)12 November 1832
Died	30 June 1914(1914-06-30) (aged 81)
Academic work
Discipline	archaeology
Institutions	Sorbonne École Normale Supérieure
Notable works	Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquité

Georges Perrot (12 November 1832 – 30 June 1914) was a French archaeologist.

He taught at the Sorbonne from 1875 and was director of the École Normale Supérieure from 1888 to 1902. In 1874 he was elected to the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, where he served as the permanent secretary from 1904 until his death.^[1]

After discovering a first fragment of the Gortyn code in 1857, his most famous archaeological discovery was made while on an expedition to Asia Minor in 1861, where he found a Greek translation of the document known as 'The Political Testament of the Emperor Augustus'.^{[citation needed]} Perrot edited and contributed to the journal Revue archéologique. His works include the two accounts of his expedition to Asia Minor (published 1862 and 1864), and the ten-volume Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquité, which he wrote with Charles Chipiez (1882–1914).^{[citation needed]}