François Lasserre

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François Lasserre (born September 14, 1919 in Lausanne , † December 22, 1989 ibid) was a Swiss classical philologist .

Life

François Lasserre, the son of the historian David Lasserre , studied classical philology at the Universities of Lausanne and Basel . After a doctorate (1946) and habilitation (1950), he was appointed full professor at the University of Lausanne in 1974 as the successor to André Rivier . In 1984 he retired .

Lasserre was mainly concerned with Greek literature and its modern reception. His research interests included Greek mathematicians, stage poets and poets. He has edited several volumes by the geographer Strabo in the "Collection des Universités de France, Guillaume Budé".

literature

  • Claude Calame : François Lasserre (1919–1989) . In: Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica . Volume 34, 1990, pp. 164-168, JSTOR 20547039 . Gnomon . Vol. 63, 1991, pp. 75-76, JSTOR 27690661
  • Yves Gerhard: André Bonnard et l'hellénisme à Lausanne au XXe siècle. Editions de l'Aire, Vevey 2011 (contains sections on Bonnard's successors at the Lausanne chair)

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