G. Seure

Russian Federation

Georges Seure (1873–1944) – French archaeologist, specialist on the archeology of Thrace, Macedonia and Greece, director of excavations on the territory of those ancient countries. A graduate of the famous École normale supérieure in 1897, who devoted his life to the study of ancient archaeological sites of the Balkans. Beginning in 1898 and during his life he investigated burials in Thrace, Macedonia and Northern Greece, from 1910 he led the excavation of the Greek colony of Selimbria in Thrace. In 1907–1908 published a monograph on the city of Nicopolis ad Istrum, founded by the Romans in Thrace. The subject of special interest of G. Seure was the cult of the Thracian horseman. He also translated works on Thracian archaeology, published initially in Bulgarian and modern Greek, into French and commented on them. In 1930-1933 he took an active part in the polemic concerning the methods of archaeological research of Troy and Mycenaean Greece.