Édouard des Places
Édouard des Places SJ (born July 24, 1900 in Le Coudray near Vineuil , † January 19, 2000 in Paris ) was a French classical philologist .
Life
Édouard des Places, the only son of a cavalry officer, initially received private lessons and then attended the Jesuit school in Montpellier , the Lycée Notre-Dame de Mongré in Villefranche-sur-Saône and the Jesuit school in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon . After graduating from school, he decided to work as a teacher in Jesuit schools himself. At the First World War, he did not take part as a soldier, but he taught in the context of military service rhetoric at the Jesuit school in Beirut . After a visit to the Holy Land (1921) he was transferred to the island of Jersey . From 1924 he taught Greek at the Jesuit school in Yzeure and at the same time prepared his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris. On June 6, 1929, he received his doctorate with a dissertation on particles supervised by Paul Mazon in Plato .
When the Second World War broke out , des Places volunteered as a chaplain to the 240th Infantry Regiment. In May and June 1940 he was praised for his work. At Dunkirk he fell into German captivity and was abducted together with other French soldiers and officers to the Westfalenhof internment camp near Danzig . While in captivity, Des Places held lectures with Paul Ricœur and others for the French prisoners of war.
After the repatriation in January 1941, des Places taught first in Mongré, and from 1944 again in Yzeure. In 1945 he worked for a short time as a chaplain in French-occupied Germany . From 1946 he held representative positions at the Institut Catholique de Paris and at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques . In 1948 he got a permanent job at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, where he was library director until his retirement (1966). In addition to this activity, he held lectures at the institute until 1982. In 1995, at the age of 95, he moved to Paris, where he died on January 19, 2000, a few months before his 100th birthday.
Services
Édouard des Places carried out intensive philological research into old age. His specialties were Greek patristics and philosophy , especially the history of Platonism . For his research he used the dense academic landscape of the city of Rome: he worked at the German Archaeological Institute , the École française , the American Academy , the British Embassy and the Center St-Louis.
As a researcher, Édouard des Places enjoyed international fame. In France he was made Knight of the Legion of Honor and elected a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres . Des Places was in contact with scientists from all over the world, including Werner Jaeger , Wolfgang Schadewaldt , Reinhold Merkelbach , Carl Andresen , Heinrich Dörrie , Hermann Dörries , Max Pohlenz , Franz Cumont , Henry Chadwick , Nigel Guy Wilson , Hugh Lloyd-Jones , John M Dillon , Alain Segonds , Robert Turcan , Jacqueline de Romilly , Jean Irigoin , Jacques Jouanna , François Jouan and Ernst Vogt .
literature
- Frederick E. Brenk: Édouard des Places † . In: Gnomon . Volume 74 (2002), pp. 377-378
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Places, Édouard des |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Places, Édouard Barbou des |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Coudray at Vineuil |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 2000 |
| Place of death | Paris |