Edgard Blochet
Edgard Blochet () (December 12, 1870 – September 51, 1937) was a French orientalist, translator, bibliographer, art historian, specializing in particular in the history of religions. He was born in Bourges. He graduated in Arabic from the School of Oriental Languages in Paris, then from the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes where he became an assistant between 1895 and 1901, while part of the manuscripts department of the National Library of France, where he was appointed vice-librarian in 1895. He published a great deal of work on Byzantine, Arabic, and Mongol history, but his specialty was Persian art and religious history. He became the assistant curator in 1929, then curator. He retired in November 1935. Sources 
 Francis Richard, «BLOCHET (Gabriel Joseph) Edgard», in: Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. IV, Fasc. 3, pp. 313-314. Published December 15, 1989. (article de Francis Richard, lire en ligne). See also 
 Edgard Blochet (b. 1870), French art historian, bibliographer, translator into French of selections Encyclopedia Iranica. iranicaonline.org 
 (en) K. A. C. Creswell, A Bibliography of the Architecture, Arts and Crafts of Islam. French orientalists
1870 births
1937 deaths
French bibliographers
French art historians
French Iranologists
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
French historians of religion

École pratique des hautes études alumni
Historians of Islamic art
Historians of Islam
20th-century French historians
French scholars of Islam
20th-century French translators
People from Bourges
Arabic–French translators
Persian-French translators