Gustave Schlumberger, French historian (died 1929)

Gustave Schlumberger

French historian and numismatist (1844–1929)

Gustave Léon Schlumberger was a French historian and numismatist who specialised in the era of the crusades and the Byzantine Empire. His Numismatique de l'Orient Latin (1878–82) is still considered the principal work on the coinage of the crusades. He was awarded the medal of…