Albert Isnard
Albert Isnard (23 December 1861 – 29 May 1949) was a French librarian and historian.
Biography
Albert Isnard was born in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. Isnard obtained his diploma as a paleographer archivist in 1887 with a thesis on Antoine de Chabannes, Count of Dammartin, Grand Master of France (1408–1488). He was then appointed librarian in the Printed Matter Department of the National Library, where he worked on the processing of entries and contributed to the records of the General Catalogue of Printed Materials.
On January 1, 1920, he was appointed assistant curator of the Maps and Plans section of the Printed Materials Department of the National Library. During his six-year mandate, he wrote a first note giving guidelines for the description of documents to librarians "rules followed in the writing of records in the map section" and participated in 1924 in the handing over by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the geographical map collection of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. Albert Isnard was also responsible for starting the transfer of the old collection of the section des cartes et plans, especially the volumes, which he entrusted to the librarian Charles Du Bus.
He was a professor at the Free Faculty of Letters of Paris, of the auxiliary sciences of history and a tutor for those preparing for the entrance exam to the National School of Charters.
References
- Prevost, Michel (1950). "Albert Isnard," Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, Vol. CVIII, pp. 195–96.
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