Charles Dugas

Charles Dugas (born October 22, 1885 in Alès ; died October 4, 1957 in Montpellier ) was a French classical archaeologist , Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Lyon . As a recognized specialist in Greek vase painting and ceramics, he was director of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum from 1954 to 1957 .

Life

Education

Charles Dugas first attended the Lycée Jean-Baptiste Dumas in Alès, before receiving his Baccalauréat at the highly regarded Lycée Henri IV in Paris . As a graduate of an institute qualifying for further studies at one of the Grandes Écoles , he began studying humanities at the École normal supérieure in Paris in 1904 . After completing his studies in 1907, the agrégation de lettres , his interests focused on the field of classical archeology. In 1908 he became an employee of the École française d'Athènes , which was headed by Maurice Holleaux at that time . During his work for the Ècole he took part in the French excavations in Tegea , Delphi and Delos . In the academic year 1912/13 he was a member of the École des hautes études hispanique in Madrid , but returned to Athens at the beginning of the First World War and served as a freelance translator for the Ècole française for the French military attaché of the naval forces. He published his knowledge and experience gained during the war in Greece in 1919 under the pseudonym Charles Frégier and the title Les étapes de la crise grecque (1915-1918).

Montpellier

In 1919 he became a lecturer at the University of Montpellier . At this time he had already published several important articles, beginning in 1910 with the historical study Agésilas en Asia Mineure , followed by the article Sculpture for the renowned Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines and the comprehensive, knowledgeable and innovative article Vasa for even this dictionnaire. On behalf of the Union Académique Internationale , he wrote the classification of Greek ceramics from the Aegean Islands for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum founded in 1919 . This was followed in 1928 by the same type of work on laconic ceramics , formerly known as Cyrenian - a field of work that Charles Dugas had first addressed more than twenty years earlier.

He made Greek vase painting accessible to a wider audience with his monograph La Céramique grecque , published in 1924 . In the same year he presented the results of the excavations in the sanctuary of Athena Alea of Tegea with Jules Étienne Berchmans and Mogens Becker Clemmensen . A preliminary work was published in 1921. This was followed in 1925 his dissertation on the ceramics of the Cyclades (La céramique the Cyclades), with whom he in Paris doctorate was earned and giving it international renown.

Lyon

After Charles Picard was appointed to the chair of Classical Archeology at the University of Paris in 1927, he was followed in 1928 by Charles Dugas in the now vacant chair at the University of Lyon . In 1931 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1942 . His election as dean of the humanities faculty at the University of Lyon in 1939 was annulled by the Vichy regime and Charles Dugas was removed from office. During the regime, he made lists of Jewish students on the faculty disappear, which earned him great credit. After the liberation , the impeachment was reversed and Charles Dugas served as dean until 1955. The Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique elected him to their member in 1952. As Alfred Merlin's successor , he became director of the international Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum project in 1954 , which he headed until his retirement in 1957. He was buried in the Protestant cemetery at Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort .

During the Lyons period, extensive works on Greek ceramics were created, many of which resulted from the processing of the excavations at Delos, which Charles Dugas occupied his entire life. But he was also interested in high-class Attic ceramics and with essays he intervened in the discussion about the emergence of the red-figure style , devoted himself to vase painting at the time of Pericles or turned to individual vase painters such as Aison . Analyzing the visual language of this handicraft and its relationship to the literary tradition of the time was - in addition to stylistic and form-historical aspects - decisive for his research.

Publications (selection)

For volume 1 of the Bibliothèque de la société des amis de la bibliothèque Salomon Reinach , the most important articles by Charles Dugas , published between 1932 and 1957 and selected by Henri Metzger , were reprinted under the title Recueil Charles Dugas . The texts were preceded by a bibliography on the work of Charles Dugas.

• Les fouilles de Tégée (1910). Alphonse Picard et Fils, Paris 1911.
• as Charles Frégier: Les étapes de la crise grecque, 1915–1918. Bossard, Paris 1919.
• La Céramique grecque. Payot, Paris 1924.
• with Jules Étienne Berchmans, Mogens Becker Clemmensen: Le Sanctuaire d'Aléa Athéna à Tégée au IVe siècle. Geuthner, Paris 1924.
• La Céramique des Cyclades. De Boccard, Paris 1925.
• Classification des céramiques antiques. Céramiques Lacono-Cyrenéennes. Union Académique Internationale, Paris 1928.
• Aison et la peinture céramique à Athènes à l'époque de Périclès. Laurens, Paris 1930.
• Le Trésor de céramique de Délos. De Boccard, Paris 1930.
• with Robert Flacelière: Thésée, images et récits. De Boccard, Paris 1958.
• Recueil Charles Dugas. De Boccard, Paris 1960 (posthumous)

For the publication of the Exploration Archéologique de Délos he published the following volumes:

• Les Vases de l'Héraion (= Exploration archéologique de Délos. Volume 10). École française d'Athènes, Paris 1928.
• Les vases préhelléniques et géométriques (= Exploration archéologique de Délos. Volume 15). École française d'Athènes, Paris 1934.
• Les vases orientalisants de style non mélien (= Exploration archéologique de Délos. Volume 17). École française d'Athènes, Paris 1935.
• Les vases attiques à figures rouges (= Exploration archéologique de Délos. Volume 21). École française d'Athènes, Paris 1952.

literature

• Henri Metzger : Charles Dugas. In: Annales de l'Université de Lyon. 1956-1958, pp. 3-7.
• Charles-Edmond Perrin : Éloge funèbre de M. Charles Dugas. In: Comptes rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (CRAI). 1957, pp. 329-333 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Charles Dugas on the website of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques

Remarks

1. ^ Charles Dugas: La campagne d'Agésilas en Asie Mineure (395). Xénophon et l'Anonyme d'Oxyrynchos. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique . Volume 34, 1910, pp. 58-95 ( digitized version ).
2. ^ Charles Dugas: Sculptura. In: Charles Victor Daremberg , Edmond Saglio (ed.): Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines. Volume 4.2. Hachette, Paris 1911, pp. 1136-1156 ( digitized version ).
3. ^ Charles Dugas: Vasa. In: Charles Victor Daremberg, Edmond Saglio (ed.): Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines. Volume 5.1. Hachette, Paris 1915, pp. 628-665 ( digitized version ).
4. ^ Charles Dugas: Classification des céramiques antiques. Céramique des îles de la mer Égée (sauf la Crête). Union Académique Internationale, Paris 1921.
5. ^ Charles Dugas: Classification des céramiques antiques. Céramiques Lacono-Cyrenéennes. Union Académique Internationale, Paris 1928.
6. ^ Charles Dugas, Robert Laurent: Essai sur les vases de style cyrénéen. In: Revue archéologique . 4th Series, Volume 10, 1907, pp. 36-58; Charles Dugas: Vases "cyrénéens" from the Musée de Tarente. In: Revue archéologique. 4th Series, Volume 20, 1912, pp. 88-105
7. ↑ Charles Dugas: Le sanctuaire d'Aléa Athéna à tegee avant le IVe siècle. In: Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique. Volume 45, 1921, pp. 335-435 ( digitized version ).
8. ^ Entry on the Academy's website.
9. ^ Entry on the Academy's website.