Jean Seznec, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean Seznec

French historian and mythographer

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1905

Place of Birth: Morlaix, Brittany, France

Date of Death: 22-Nov-1983

Profession: historian, university teacher, art historian, literary historian, mythographer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Jean Seznec (19 March 1905, in Morlaix – 22 November 1983, in Oxford) was a historian and mythographer whose most influential book, for English-speaking readers, has been La Survivance des dieux antiques, 1940, translated as The Survival of the Pagan Gods: Mythological Tradition in Renaissance Humanism and Art, 1953.
Expanding the scope of work by Warburg Institute scholars Fritz Saxl and Erwin Panofsky, Seznec presented a broad view of the transmission of classical representation in Western Art.