Alphonse Dain

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Marie-Alphonse Dain (born April 3, 1896 in Chavignon , Département Aisne , † July 10, 1964 in Paris ) was a French Graecist , Byzantinist , palaeographer and codicologist .

Life

Dain attended schools in Chauny and Soissons , both places near his birthplace Chavignon in northern France. During the First World War , Dain initially served as an officer in an infantry unit, then at his own request for reasons of conscience as a reconnaissance officer in the Air Force, in order to be responsible only for himself. After two kills, he was awarded the Croix de guerre with Palme and the Legion of Honor.

The beginning of his studies was delayed by the war. He studied from 1922 to 1924 as a pupil of Paul Mazon (1874–1955) and Émile Bourguet (1868–1939) Classical Philology at the Sorbonne , with Étienne Michon (1865–1939), Edmond Pottier and Alfred Merlin at the École du Louvre , then after graduating from Alexandre Marie Desrousseaux (1861–1955) at the École Pratique des Hautes Études . In 1926 he was able to acquire the Agrégation de lettres .

From 1922 onwards he was also Assistant de grec, from 1938 Professor of Greek Language and Literature and from 1954 to 1964 Dean of the Faculté des Lettres at the Institut catholique de Paris .

From 1928 to 1932 he was suppléant for Desrousseaux, from 1929 lecturer for exercises in Greek palaeography at the chair of Henri Lebègue , from 1932 to maître de conférences, from 1942 to directeur d'études in Greek palaeography at the École pratique des Hautes Études.

With a thesis on the text history of Ailianos Taktikos , he received his doctorate in 1946 as Docteur ès lettres. During the Second World War he actively joined the Resistance and was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance as well as an officer of the Légion d'honneur for military services .

From his youth, Dain was a member of the Association pour l'encouragement des études grecques en France , from 1946 to 1953 its general secretary and 1955 its president, as well as a member of the Société des Études latines , of which he was chairman in 1949.

He was also a member of the Association Guillaume Budé , its general secretary since 1944 and its deputy chairman since 1955, as well as editor of the Collection des Universités de France published by Les Belles Lettres . For this edition series he set new standards in the critical text edition ( collation of manuscripts, creation of a stem , complete apparatus ).

From 1949 to 1962 he was exécutif secretary of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines , and in 1962 its vice-president.

He was also a founding member of the Fédération Internationale des Associations d'Études Classiques , whose first congress he organized in Paris in 1950 , and membre libre résidant of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (elected on December 21, 1962, appointed on January 31 1963).

He was also director of the catalog of Greek manuscripts of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and a member of the Conseil supérieur de l'Éducation nationale appointed by the minister.

research

Dain distinguished himself through his work on Greek handwriting ( palaeography ) and the science of handwritten books, the Codex ( codicology ). He is considered to be one of the founders of codicology in France and the creator of the term codicology, which appears in his major palaeographic work Les Manuscrits from 1949. His specialties were the Byzantine military writers ( Onesandros , Heron of Byzantium , Sylloge Tacticorum , Nikephoros Uranos , Ailianos Taktikos, Leon VI. , Aineias Taktikos ) and legal scholars. He also edited the Attic lexicon Philetairos , which was probably wrongly ascribed to Ailios Herodianos .

His early work includes editions of the Musée du Louvre and Musée du Bardo inscriptions .

Together with Paul Mazon, he edited the three-volume Sophocles edition of the Budé Collection. He was also involved in the edition of the Greek anthology in the same series of two volumes as a translator and posthumous editor.

Dain also created a grammar, a morphology , a metric for Greek and wrote a thesis on Greek style and sentence types in Greek.

Fonts (selection)

Font directory

  • Marie-Alphonse Dain: Titres et travaux de Marie-Alphonse Dain. Paris-Limoges 1958; Bontemps, Limoges 1963.

Monographs on the history of the text

  • Les manuscrits d'Onésandros. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1930. - Review by Jean-René Vieillefond, in: Revue des Études Grecques 44, 1931, pp. 433-434, (online) .
  • La tradition du texte d'Héron de Byzance. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1933. - Review by Felix Peeters, in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 14, 1935, pp. 465–468, (online) .
  • Le Corpus perditum. Paris 1939. - Review by: Venance Grumel, in: Échos d'Orient 39, 1941, pp. 521-524, (online) .
  • La collection florentine des tacticiens grecs. Essai sur une entreprise philologique de la Renaissance. Paris 1940. - Review by: Venance Grumel, in: Échos d'Orient 39, 1941, pp. 521-524, (online) .
  • Histoire du texte d'Élien le Tacticien, des origines à la fin du Moyen Âge. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1946 (thèse de doctorat). - Review of: Jules Labarbe, in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 27, 1949, pp. 171–172, (online) .
  • Les manuscrits. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1949, second edition 1964.

Greek grammar, metrics and style

  • Leçon sur la stylistique grecque. A. Bontemps, Paris, Lyon 1941.
  • Leçon sur la métrique grecque. (Bontemps, Limoges) 1944.
  • The types de phrase en grec. 1952.
  • with Jules-Albert De Foucault et Pierre Poulain: Précis de morphologie grecque. De Gigord, Paris 1957.
  • Traité de métrique grecque. Klincksieck, Paris 1965. - Review by: François Lasserre, in: L'Antiquité classique 34, 1965, pp. 629–633, (online) .
  • Éloi Ragon: Grammaire grecque. Entièrement refondue… by Alphonse Dain, Jules-Albert De Foucault and Pierre Poulain. De Gigord, Paris 1952. - Fortieth, revised edition of: Éloi Ragon, Grammaire grecque. De Gigord, Paris 1889. - Review by: Venance Grumel, in: Revue des études byzantines 12, 1954, pp. 239-240, (online) ; Maurice Leroy, in: L'Antiquité classique 22, 1953, pp. 485-486, (online) .

Text editions

  • Inscriptions grecques du Musée du Louvre. Les textes inédits. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1933. - Review by: Albert Brouwers, in: L'Antiquité classique 3, 1934, pp. 542-543, (online) .
  • Leonis VI Sapientis Problemata. Texts établi by Alphonse Dain. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1935. - Review by: Pierre Costil, in: Revue des Études Grecques 49, 1936, pp. 492–493, (online) .
  • Inscriptions grecques du Musée du Bardo. Bontemps, Limoges 1936.
  • La Tactique de Nicéphore Ouranos. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1937. - Review by: René Henry, in: L'Antiquité classique 7, 1938, pp. 481-484, (online) .
  • Sylloge Tacticorum quae olim inedita Leonis tactica dicebatur. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1938. - Review by: René Henry, in: L'Antiquité classique 9, 1940, pp. 238-239, (online) .
  • Anthology grecque. Tome IV: Anthologie palatine, Livre VII, Épigrammes 1-363. Texts établi par Pierre Waltz, traduit par Alexandre Marie Desrousseaux, Alphonse Dain, Pierre Camelot et Édouard des Places . Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1938, 3rd tirage 2002. - Marie Delcourt, in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 18, 1939, pp. 991-993, (online) .
  • The "Extrait Tactique" from Léon VI le Sage. Champion, Paris 1942 (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des hautes études. Sciences historiques et philologiques, 284).
  • Naumachica, partim adhuc inedita in unum nunc primum congessit et indice auxit Alphonse Dain. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1943 (Nouvelle Collection de Textes et Documents).
  • with Pierre Noailles: Les Nouvelles de Léon VI le Sage. Texts et traduction. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1944 (Nouvelle Collection de Textes et Documents). - Review by: Henry René, in: L'Antiquité classique 14, 1945, pp. 430-432, (online) .
  • Le Philétaeros attribué à Hérodien. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1954. - Review by: Martin Wittek, in: Scriptorium 10, 1956, pp. 332–333.
  • Sophocle, Tragédies. Texts établi by Alphonse Dain et traduit by Paul Mazon. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1955–1960 (Collection des Universités de France). Tome I: Les Trachiniennes. Antigone. 1955, 7e édition revue et corrigée par Jean Irigoin, 1994; Tome II: Ajax. Œdipe Roi. Electre. 1958, 8th tirage revu et corrigé par Jean Irigoin, 1994; Tome III: Philoctète. Œdipe à Colone. 1960, 5th tirage revu et corrigé par Jean Irigoin, 1999.
  • Anthology grecque. Tome VII: Anthologie palatine, Livre IX, Épigrammes 1–358. Texts établi by Pierre Waltz, traduit by Guy Soury. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1957, 2nd tirage 2002. - After the death of Pierre Waltz, edited by Alphonse Dain and Charles Astruc. - Review by François Jouan , in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 37, 1959, pp. 430–432, (online) .
  • Énée le Tacticien. Poliorcétique. Texts établi by Alphonse Dain, traduit et annoté by Anne-Marie Bon. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1967 (Collection des Universités de France). - Review by: Yvon Garlan, in: Revue des Études Grecques 81, 1968. pp. 286–288, (online) .

literature

  • Paul Lemerle : In Memoriam: Alphonse Dain (1896–1964). In: Revue des études byzantines 22, 1964, pp. 318-320, (online) .
  • André Grabar : Éloge funèbre de M. Marie-Alphonse Dain, membre libre de l'Académie. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 108, 1964, pp. 234-238, (online) .
  • Alfred Ernout : Alphonse Dain (1896-1964). In: Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé 1964, pp. 297-298, (online) .
  • Pierre Chantraine : Alphonse Dain. In: Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé 1964, pp. 299-303, (online) .
  • Jean Malye: Alphonse Dain, Administrateur de la Société d'édition Les Belles Lettres. In: Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé 1964, pp. 304-305, (online) .
  • Pierre-Marie Schuhl . In: Revue des Études Grecques 78, 1965, pp. XLIII-XLV, (online) .
  • Jean Irigoin : Alphonse Dain (1896–1964). In: Annuaire de l'École pratique des Hautes Études, IVe section, 98, 1965-1966, pp. 49-59, (online) . (with picture in the uniform of the Académie and with Order of Merit)
  • Pietro Pucci : Immagine di Alphonse Dain. In: Belfagor 21, 1966, pp. 224-226.
  • Jean Irigoin: Alphonse Dain (le savant). In: Institut Catholique de Paris, Le livre du centenaire 1875–1975. Paris 1975, pp. 314-315, (excerpts online) .
  • Jacqueline de Romilly . In: Graziano Arrighetti, Emilio Gabba and Franco Montanari (eds.), La filologia greca e latina nel secolo XX. Atti del Congresso Internazionale. Roma, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 17-21 September 1984. Pisa 1989, Vol. I, p. 471ff.
  • Paul Jal. In: Graziano Arrighetti , Emilio Gabba and Franco Montanari (eds.), La filologia greca e latina nel secolo XX. Atti del Congresso Internazionale. Roma, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 17-21 September 1984. Pisa 1989, vol. I, p. 492ff.
  • Bernard Flusin. In: Enrica Follieri (ed.), La filologia medievale e umanistica greca e latina nel secolo XX. Atti del Congresso Internazionale, Roma, Consiglio delle Ricerche, Università La Sapienza, 11–15 December 1989. Roma 1993 (Testi e studi bizantini-neoellenici, VII), Vol. I, pp. 65–68 and note 14 on p. 68.
  • William M. Calder III , DJ Kramer: An Introductory Bibliography of Classical Scholarship Chiefly in the XIXth and XXth Centuries. Hildesheim-Zurich-New York 1992, p. 336, note 2566.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As Corpus perditum Dain describes a now lost treatise, of which the second half of the Sylloge Tacticorum and the third part of the tactics of Nikephoros Uranos are paraphrases.
personal data
SURNAME Dain, Alphonse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dain, Marie-Alphonse (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Graecist, Byzantinist, paleographer and codicologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Chavignon , Aisne department
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1964
Place of death Paris