Auguste Bouché-Leclercq

Auguste Bouché-Leclercq

Auguste Bouché-Leclercq (born July 30, 1842 in Francières (Oise) , Oise department , † July 19, 1923 in Nogent-sur-Marne , Val-de-Marne department ) was a French ancient historian.

Life

Auguste Bouché-Leclercq was the son of Louis-Thomas Bouché and Marie-Joséphine Leclercq, who worked as farmers. He received his instruction in several seminaries and passed his Abitur in Paris in 1861 . He acted as a private teacher on a month-long trip through Italian and German cities. Afterwards he was a high school teacher in Meaux in 1866 and obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1872 . From 1873 to 1878 he was professor of ancient literature at the philosophical faculty of Montpellier . In 1876 he married Marie Julie Guillaume and had three sons and a daughter with her. In 1887 he became professor of ancient history in Paris, in 1898 a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and in 1903 an officer of the Legion of Honor . In 1918 he retired and died in 1923 at the age of 81.

The main focus of Bouché-Leclercq's research was in the field of ancient religious history and the history of Hellenism . On the latter subject he wrote two important works on the Ptolemaic and Seleucid dynasties . He also translated the works of German historians into French, including 1883–1885 the history of Hellenism by Johann Gustav Droysen .

Works (selection)

• Les Pontifes de l'ancienne Rome (dissertation, 1871)
• Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquité (1879–1882), 4 vols.
• Atlas pour servir à l'histoire grecque de E. Curtius (1883)
• Manuel des institutions romaines (1886)
• L'astrologie dans le monde romain (1897)
• L'astrologie grecque (Paris 1899)
• Leçons d'histoire grecque (1900)
• Histoire des Lagides (1903-1907), 4 vols.
• Histoire des Séleucides (1913-1914), 2 vols.

literature

• M. Prévost: Bouché-Leclercq, Auguste . In: Dictionnaire de Biographie française . Volume 6 (1954), Col. 1195.