Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
The Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres ( Academy of Inscriptions and Literature ), formerly Académie royale des inscriptions et médailles and Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres , also known as la petite académie , was originally a French society for the promotion of French epigraphy . Today the Académie is a scholarly society for scientific research devoted to the languages, history, culture and art of the entire Old World from its beginnings to the present day.
meaning
In addition to the Académie française , the Académie des sciences , the Académie des beaux-arts and the Académie des sciences morales et politiques , the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres is one of the five parts of the Institut de France based in Paris.
In 1663, four members of the Académie française were assigned by Jean-Baptiste Colbert specifically to lead the writing and editing of the inscriptions on the public monuments. This commission, which was also called la petite Académie , was named Académie royale des Inscriptions et Médailles in 1701 and a set of regulations that fixed the number of its members at 40 and divided the area of its activity into the sections of history, archeology and philology. Due to a decree of the French regent, on January 4, 1716 the name was changed to Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres .
Jean-François Champollion presented his findings on the study of hieroglyphs to a broader public for the first time in a lecture in front of the Inscription Academy.
Today the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres has 55 French members and 40 associated foreign members. There are also 50 French and 50 foreign corresponding members. The members are elected for life. If a seat becomes vacant, the members of the Académie make suggestions and elect the new member in a secret ballot. This applies to both the full French and the associated foreign members.
The seats are divided into four equal groups:
- Orientalists : from Egypt to the Levant and Anatolia, the Middle to the Far East, from the early advanced civilizations to modern India and China
- Classical ancient scholars : ancient historians , classical philologists , classical archaeologists , numismatists , celtologists
- Medievalists , including the Slavic and Byzantine room in time to the 17th century extended
- Mixed group: legal historians , linguists , religious historians , prehistorians , philosophers
The Academy's publications are extensive, with more than 20 periodicals published each year.
The academy awards more than thirty different prizes. These include the Prix du Budget, Prix Gobert, Prix Bordin, Prix Saintour and the Prix Stanislas Julien for important publications in Sinology.
Members
A complete list of all current and former members, all associated and all corresponding members can be found on the homepage of the Académie.
Secrétaire perpétuel
The academy is directed by the Secrétaire perpétuel :
- Claude Gros de Boze (1706–1742)
- Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne (1743–1772)
- Louis Dupuy (1772–1782)
- Bon-Joseph Dacier (1782–1793; 1803–1833)
- Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1833-1838)
- Pierre-Claude Daunou (1838–1840)
- Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1840-1852)
- Eugène Burnouf (1852)
- Joseph Naudet (1852-1860)
- Joseph Guigniaut (1860–1873)
- Henri Wallon (1873-1904)
- Georges Perrot (1904-1914)
- Gaston Maspero (1914-1916)
- René Cagnat (1916–1937)
- René Dussaud (1937-1948)
- Alfred Merlin (1948–1964)
- Georges Tessier (1964–1968)
- André Dupont-Sommer (1968–1983)
- Jean Leclant (1983-2011)
- Michel Zink (since 2011)
Académie website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Palmarès 2010 . Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Retrieved November 2, 2012.
- ^ Prix et Fondations . Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Retrieved November 2, 2012.