Ernest Louis Georges Will (25 April 1913 – 24 September 1997) was a 20th-century French archaeologist and University professor, a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
[1] After he finished his secondary studies at the Jean Sturm Gymnasium and passed a licence de lettres at the Strasbourg University, Ernest Will joined the École Normale Supérieure in 1933 and obtained an Aggregation classique in 1936.
When he was mobilized at the approach of World War II, he was affected in Beirut to the staff of General Maxime Weygand.
On 1 October 1946, he became, with Jean Starcky, one of the first residents of the Institut français du Proche-Orient in Beirut, which has founded the same year by Henri Seyrig[4] and specialized in research on the Hellenized Middle East.
[8] For 19 years he directed the academic journal Syria dedicated to archaeology published by the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (1978–1997).