Claude Gros de Boze

Claude Gros de Boze (28 January 1680 – 10 September 1753) was a French scholar and numismatist.

Studying in Lyon and Paris, and settling in the latter around 1700, he gained the support of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault and thus (in 1705) became a pensionary of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.

In 1719 he was made curator or garde of the Cabinet des médailles et antiques, a post he held until his death.

With his student and assistant Jean-Jacques Barthélemy he developed a method of classifying medals and in 1723 completed an "inventory of medals, engraved stones and other antique rarities in the Cabinet du roy".

In 1727 he was elected a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and on 6 April 1749 even became a Fellow of the British Royal Society.