Ève Gran-Aymerich

Ève Gran-Aymerich 2014

Ève Gran-Aymerich (born July 22, 1947 in Paris ) is a French archaeologist and historian .

life and work

After studying Classical Philology (Lettres classiques) at the Sorbonne , she submitted a Thèse de doctorat on the history of French archeology from 1798 to 1945 in the Mediterranean and the Middle East in an international context. The work was published under the title “Naissance de l'archéologie moderne. 1798–1945 ” in 1998. In addition, she wrote an extensive encyclopedia on the most important European classical scholars of the same epoch, which was published in 2001 and is an indispensable tool in this field. She worked as a researcher at the CNRS and then at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .

Her work deals with the origins and work of French antiquity research institutions in France itself and throughout the Mediterranean region. She always considers the history of archeology and classical studies in an international context, be it with regard to the influences of great politics (the Orient question of the 19th century, the emergence of the colonial empires, the European and world wars), be it with regard to it to the exchange between scientists from European countries. On the basis of the extensive archive material from public files and correspondence of the participating scholars that she has developed, she can be described as one of France's leading researchers in this field. In particular, she is also an outstanding specialist in the field of relationships between German and French classical scholars.

Ève Gran-Aymerich received the Prix ​​François Millepierres of the Académie française in 1991 and the Prix ​​de la Société d'entraide de la Légion d'Honneur in 1992 .

She is married to the archaeologist Jean Gran-Aymerich .

Publications (selection)

• Jane Dieulafoy. Une vie d'homme. Librairie académique Perrin, Paris 1991.
• Naissance de l'archéologie moderne. 1798-1945. CNRS Éditions, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-271-05570-9 (Spanish edition: El nacimiento de la arqueologia moderna 1798-1945. Prensas Universitarias, Zaragoza 2001).
• Dictionnaire biographique d'archéologie (1798–1945). Préface de Jean Leclant , avant-propos de André Laronde, CNRS Éditions Paris 2001, ISBN 2-271-05702-7 .
• Les Chercheurs de passé. 1798-1945. Aux sources de l'archéologie. (Second, combined edition of Naissance de l'archéologie moderne. 1798–1945 and Dictionnaire biographique d'archéologie (1798–1945) ), CNRS Éditions, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-271-06538-4 .
• with Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg : L'Antiquité partagée. Correspondances franco-allemandes (1823–1861). Karl Benedikt Hase , Désiré Raoul-Rochette , Karl Otfried Müller , Otto Jahn , Theodor Mommsen (= Mémoires de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres 47). Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-87754-272-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the review by Dominique Bourel in: Bulletin du Center de recherche français à Jérusalem 2001, No. 9, p. 72 ( digitized version ) and Nathalie Richard in: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. Vol. 56, 2001, pp. 749-751 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Ève Gran-Aymerich: La reorganization de l 'archeologie française de 1939 a la fin des années 1960. Les conséquences de la décolonisation. Lecture published on February 15, 2008, updated on October 1, 2010.