Georges Charles Le Rider (27 January 1928 – 3 July 2014[1]) was a French historian, librarian and administrator, a specialist in Greek numismatics, who headed the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.
After he was admitted to the École normale supérieure in 1948, Le Rider obtained his agrégation de lettres classiques in 1952.
On his return from Beirut, Georges entered the Bibliothèque nationale de France as curator of the Cabinet des Médailles, a department he then headed from 1961.
Concurrent with his work with these several institutions, he pursued a teaching career, first at the École pratique des hautes études, then at the University of Lille and at the university Paris-IV, before being elected professor of economic and monetary history of the Hellenistic East at the College de France in 1993.
[2] Le Rider was made a knight of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur in 1977[3] and promoted to the level of officier (officer) on 30 January 2008.