Marie Delcourt

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Marie Delcourt , also Marie Curvers-Delcourt (born November 18, 1891 in Ixelles / Elsene , † February 11, 1979 in Liège ) was a Belgian classical philologist and ancient historian . She was the first female lecturer at the University of Liège and with a course on the history of humanism in 1929 she founded the local academic tradition of the interdisciplinary cours libre .

Marie Delcourt studied at the University of Liège from 1911 to 1919, her studies were interrupted during the First World War when she served in the Belgian secret service La Dame Blanche . From 1919 to 1921 she was in Paris for a study visit, where she met Franz Cumont , who also inspired her later research on myths and cults. From 1922 to 1942 she taught Greek and rhetoric at the Lycée Institut supérieur des demoiselles in Liège. She was a participant in the future talks between Western Europeans in the Cercle de Colpach .

In 1929 she became the first woman ever to be a lecturer at the University of Liège, initially in an additional job. From 1940 until her retirement in 1961 she was a full professor there.

Delcourt initially dealt with the ancient drama under the influence of Léon Parmentier , Louis Havet , Paul Mazon and Abel Lefranc . Later she dealt mainly with humanism, in particular with Erasmus von Rotterdam and Thomas More . In 1929 she gave an interdisciplinary course on humanism at the university, which established a new interdisciplinary tradition at the university. She dealt with humanism in several writings. Another focus of her research were the ancient myths and cults . Her religious- psychological interpretations of Greek myths and cults, especially the myths about Oedipus and deformed children and hermaphrodites in antiquity, did not remain undisputed in the professional world. Nevertheless, she and Karl Hoheisel wrote the article hermaphrodite for the Reallexikon für antiquity and Christianity . She also published a scientific cookbook on her travels and in 1947.

Delcourt also saw herself as a humanist. She belonged to the circles around the writer Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert in Pontigny , where she was in contact with André Gide and Jean Schlumberger , for example , and also to the literary-artistic salon in Colpach . Her husband, Alexis Curvers , to whom she had been married since 1932, was also a writer.

Fonts

  • La vie d'Euripide. Ed. Gallimard, Paris 1930.
  • Eschyle. Ed. Rieder, Paris 1934 (Maîtres de Littérature, Volume 18).
  • Thomas More, œuvres choisies. Ed. La Renaissance du livre, Paris 1936.
  • Stérilités mystérieuses et naissances maléfiques dans l'antiquité classique. Ed. Droz, Paris 1938 (Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, Volume 82).
  • Périclès. Ed. Gallimard, Paris 1939.
  • Legends et cultes de héros en Grèce. Ed. PUF, Paris 1942. ( Presses Universitaires de France , Mythes et religions , Volume 10)
  • Images de Grèce. Ed. Libris, Brussels 1943.
  • Erasme. Ed. Libris, Brussels 1944.
  • with Conrad Stein: Œdipe ou la légende du conquérant. Ed. Fac.Phil.Lett., Liège 1944, (Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, Volume 104).
  • Jean Schlumberger, essai critique. Ed. Gallimard, Paris 1945.
  • Méthode de cuisine à l'usage des personnes intelligentes. Ed. Baude, Paris-Brussels 1947.
  • The grands sanctuaires de la Grèce. Ed. PUF, Paris 1947 (Mythes et Religions, Volume 21).
  • Tragic Grecs. Euripid. Ed. Gallimard, Paris 1962 (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade).
  • Thomas More. L'Utopie. Ed. La Renaissance du Livre, Brussels 1966.
  • La correspondance d'Érasme. Collectif, tomes 1, 10, 11, Éd. Presses Académiques Européennes, Brussels 1967–1982.
  • L'oracle de Delphes. Ed. Payot, Paris 1955.
  • Héphaistos ou la legend du magicien. Ed. Belles-Lettres, Paris 1957 (Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, Volume 146).
  • Hermaphrodite, mythes et rites de la bisexualité dans l'antiquité classique. Ed. PUF, Paris 1958 ( Mythes et religions , volume 36).
  • Oreste and Alcméon. Étude sur la projection légendaire du matricide en Grèce. Ed. Belles-Lettres, Paris 1959 (Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, Volume 151).
  • Pyrrhus et Pyrrha. Research on the value of your fire in the legend of helléniques. Ed. Belles-Lettres, Paris 1965, (Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, Volume 174).
  • L'autre regard. Chroniques du Journal Le Soir. Ed. Le Cri / Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises, Brussels 2004 Contents .

Letters

  • Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert - Marie Delcourt-Curvers. Correspondance 1923 - 1946. Avec quelques lettres d'Aline Mayrisch à Hélène Legros, Alexis Curvers, Denise Halkin. Ed. Catherine Gravet, Cornel Meder. Preface by C. Gravet. Cercle des Amis de Colpach, Luxembourg 2009

literature

supporting documents

  1. ^ Marie Delcourt, Karl Hoheisel: Hermaphrodit. In: Reallexikon für Antike und Christianentum , Volume 14, Stuttgart 1988, Sp. 649–682.
personal data
SURNAME Delcourt, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Curvers-Delcourt, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian classical philologist, religious and ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Ixelles / Elsene
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1979
Place of death Liege