Jean Adhémar

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Jean Adhémar
BornJean Henri Jacques Adhémar  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
18 March 1908  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
17th arrondissement of Paris   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Died30 June 1987  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg (aged 79)
16th arrondissement of Paris   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Education doctorate   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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Occupation Art historian, library curator, editor-in-chief, archivist, palaeographer  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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Jean Adhémar (18 March 1908 – 30 June 1987) was a French librarian, curator, and academic. He was born in Paris, France.

Adhémar was a curator in the print department ("Cabinet Des Estampes") at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France from 1932 to 1961, and headed the department from 1961 until 1972. He introduced photography to the Bibliothèque.

Adhémar graduated from the École Nationale des Chartes and held a Doctorate ès Lettre from the Sorbonne. He was a professor at the École du Louvre and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

As a young scholar, Adhémar was an affiliate of the Warburg Institute in London. He introduced France to the ideas and methods of Erwin Panofsky, Meyer Schapiro, and Edgar Wind by broadening its analysis and research to widen the field of human mentality history. He published articles, books, and catalogues, and was considered one of the world's foremost experts on prints (with a predilection for the 19th century).

Adhémar was the editor of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts until his death, and was the founder, in 1963, of the Nouvelles de l'Estampe, a scholarly journal on prints.

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