François de Callataÿ
13 June 1961 · 1 obras en el catálogo
François de Callataÿ, born in Uccle, Belgium, is a Belgian ancient historian, professor at the École pratique des hautes études (Paris/Sorbonne), who has written significant studies of coinage and finance in the ancient Mediterranean world. Callataÿ was educated at the Collège Saint-Pierre (Uccle), and went on to study Archaeology and Art History at the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). He specialised in the study of ancient Greek money, presenting a doctoral dissertation in 1988. In 1991 he was appointed to the medals collection of the Royal Library of Belgium, becoming director of the collection in 1994. In 1995 and 2003 he was visiting professor of the Summer Seminar of the American Numismatic Society. Since 1998 he has lectured once a week at the École pratique des hautes études (Paris/Sorbonne). In 2006 he was appointed overall head of the patrimonial collection of the Royal Library (including manuscripts rare books, prints, maps, coins, medals and music). He is a member of the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Callata%C3%BF)
