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Louis Charles Jean Courajod (22 February 1841Albert Marignan, "Le Moyen Age", Bulletin Mensuel d'Histoire Et de Philologie, Vol.9, 1896 – 26 June 1896) was a French art historian, museum curator and connoisseur-collector, who was born and died in Paris. Dictionary of Art historians: "Courajod, Louis"
In 1874 he began his career at the Musée du Louvre, developing at first his special interest in the Gothic sculpture of the 14th and 15th centuries, then turning to the Carolingian art, of the . In 1887, he was appointed a professor at the École du Louvre, teaching Medieval and Renaissance sculpture; he was director of the department from 1893. Among his students were André Michel, who succeeded him at the Louvre, and .
Courajod was a regular contributor to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. He served on the Commission des monuments historiques and was a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France.
Courajod introduced the term "International Gothic" to describe the Late Gothic movement expressed in sculptures and other media.
A commemorative memoir, Louis Courajod, un historien de l'art français, was published by Courajod's former pupil, Albert Marignan, in 1896.
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