André-Jean Festugière

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André-Jean Festugière

André-Jean Festugière (born March 15, 1898 in Paris , † August 13, 1982 in Saint-Dizier ) was a French religious historian and classical philologist .

Life

Festugière completed his high school studies during the First World War in Paris, attended there from 1918 to the École normal supérieure and was a member of the École Francaise in Rome and Athens from 1920 to 1922 . In 1924 he entered the Dominican Order and was ordained a priest in 1930. He then spent a year in Jerusalem and received his doctorate in 1937 at the Sorbonne as Docteur ès lettres. From 1940 he began teaching at the Institut Catholique in Paris and from 1943 as Directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris until 1968. His teaching position was the history of Greek religions in the Hellenistic and Roman epochs. In 1970 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Festugière was a prolific scholar and relentless worker in science, who produced over 70 books and 175 essays, including on Socrates , Plato , Epicurus , Proclus, and the Corpus Hermeticum . The four-volume work La Révélation d ' Hermès Trismègiste was a supplement to the four-volume Corpus Hermeticum . For his scientific achievements, Festugiere was accepted on June 28, 1963 as a foreign member of the order Pour le Mérite for science and the arts . Since 1952 he was a corresponding member of the British Academy and since 1961 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

literature

  • Robert Marichal: Allocution à l'occasion du décès du RP Jean Festugière. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Volume 126, 1982, pp. 504-508 ( online ).
  • Karl Rahner : Memorial words for André Jean Festugière. In: Orden Pour le Mérite for Science and the Arts. Speeches and memorial speeches. Volume 19, 1983, pp. 47-52 ( PDF ).
  • Pierre Hadot : [Obituary]. In: Annuaire de l'École pratique des Hautes études. Section des sciences réligieuses. Volume 92, 1983-84, pp. 31-35.
  • Enzo Lucchesi, Henri-Dominique Saffrey (Ed.): Mémorial André-Jean Festugière. Antiquité païenne et chrétienne (= Cahiers d'orientalisme. Volume 10). Geneva, Cramer 1984 (pp. XVII – XXXIV list of publications; review by Marie-Hélène Congourdeau in: Revue des études byzantines. Volume 44, 1986, pp. 312–313).
  • Ernst Vogt : André-Jean Festugière, March 15, 1898 - August 13, 1982. In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Year 1983, pp. 186–188 ( PDF; 418 kB ).
  • Laurent Guichard: Festugière, André-Jean. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 391-393.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Order pour le merite for science and the arts. Volume 3: 1953-1992. Lambert Schneider Verlag, Gerlingen 1994, p. 162.
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  3. ^ Member entry of André Jean Festugière at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 3, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Festugière, André-Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian of religion and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1982
Place of death Saint-Dizier