André Rivier

André Rivier (born May 18, 1914 in Jouxtens-Mézery , † April 28, 1973 in Le Mont-sur-Lausanne ) was a Swiss Graecist .

After studying classical philology at the University of Lausanne , he obtained a licentiate in 1936 and received his doctorate in 1944. An academic year at Oxford followed from 1950 to 1951 . He was then a teacher in Istanbul from 1938 to 1941 , and from 1941 to 1957 at the Lausanne Girls' High School. From 1947 to 1957 he worked as a private lecturer, from 1957 to 1965 as an associate professor, and finally from 1965 to 1973 as professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Lausanne. From 1966 to 1968 he was dean of the humanities faculty.

Rivier worked mainly on the tragedy poets Euripides and Aeschylus , the pre-Socratics and Hippocrates . In the interpretation method, he relied on a direct understanding of the text.

Fonts (selection)

• Essai sur le tragique d'Euripide. 1964. Seconde édition entièrement revue. Broccard, Paris 1975. - Review by Herman Van Looy , in: L'antiquité classique. 44, 1975, pp. 709-710, (online)
• Euripid . Sept exposés et discussions by JC Kamerbeek, André Rivier, Hans Diller , Albin Lesky , RP Winnington-Ingram , Günther Zuntz , Victor Martin. Vandoeuvres-Genève, Fondation Hardt 1960 (Entretiens sur l'Antiquité Classique, Tome VI)
• Études de Literature grecque. Théâtre, Poésie lyrique, Philosophy, Médecine. Recueil publié par François Lasserre and Jacques Sulliger. Droz, Genève 1975. - Review by Herman Van Looy, in: L'antiquité classique. 45, 1976, 265-266, (online) . (Collected Essays)

literature

• Anonymous: Homage to André Rivier. In: Etudes de lettres , 1974, No. 1, pp. 4-26.
• Lucienne Hubler: André Rivier. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Yves Gerhard: André Bonnard et l'hellénisme à Lausanne au XXe siècle. Editions de l'Aire, Vevey 2011. - (contains sections on Bonnard's successors at the Lausanne chair)