Charles Graux (philologist)

Charles Graux (1875)

Charles Graux (born November 23, 1852 in Vervins , † January 13, 1882 in Paris ) was a French classical philologist and paleographer .

Life

Charles Graux attended the École des Chartes and the École pratique des hautes études in Paris , where he particularly followed the Graecist Édouard Tournier . Tournier introduced him to Greek paleography and textual criticism . In April 1872 Graux obtained his licentiate . From November 1873 he held his first own courses as a répétiteur at the École pratique des hautes études and took over the management of the journals Revue de philologie and Revue critique . At the same time he worked as a librarian at the university library.

Graux was sent on long-term research trips at government expense because of his outstanding knowledge of Greek palaeography. He examined hundreds of manuscripts in the academic libraries of Sweden, Denmark, Portugal and Spain. On his research trips he was also the Spanish King Alfonso XII. with whom he negotiated the international loan of manuscripts during the audience. Graux's first publication was the Copenhagen Royal Library's manuscript catalog (1879).

On January 11, 1881 Graux was a dissertation on a Plutarch -Handschrift for Docteur des Beaux-Arts Ph.D. , shortly thereafter, Maître de conférences appointed at the École pratique des hautes études and charged with lectures on Greek history and antiquities. Before the subject was established towards the end of the year, Graux undertook a research trip to Italy, where he stayed in Florence and Rome. In Rome he stayed in the Vatican Library for several weeks and supported the researchers there with his palaeographic knowledge. He also promised to return to catalog the manuscripts. In January 1882 he returned to Paris and died there of an illness.

Graux's early death caused dismay in the academic world across Europe. Several obituaries appeared at home and abroad. At the instigation of his family and colleagues, a commemorative publication ( Mélanges Graux ) was published in 1884 with contributions from renowned scholars from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Switzerland and the United States, including Eugène Benoist , Gaston Boissier , Friedrich Blass , Auguste Bouché-Leclercq , Ivo Bruns , Carel Gabriel Cobet , Domenico Comparetti , Ernest Desjardins , Émile Egger , Richard Foerster , Victor Gardthausen , Theodor Gomperz , Herman Haupt , Louis Havet , Johan Ludvig Heiberg , Henrik van Herhaben , Milton W. Humphreys , Spyridon Lambros , Gustav Löwe , Ernst Maass , Johan Nicolai Madvig , Ludwig Mendelssohn , Feodor Mischtschenko , Theodor Mommsen , Karl Konrad Müller , Henri Omont , Salomon Reinach , Théodore Reinach , Ferdinand de Saussure , Karl Schenkl , Alfred Schöne , Eduard Schwartz , Franz Susemihl , Emil Ponori Thewrewk , Girolamo Vitelli and Henri Weil .

Graux's numerous posthumous writings and manuscripts were published by other scholars long after his death.

Fonts

• Notices sommaires des Manuscrits Grecs de la Grande Bibliothèque Royale de Copenhague . Paris 1879
• Essai sur les origines du fonds Grec de l'Escurial: episode de l'histoire de la renaissance des lettres en Espagne . Paris 1880
• De Plutarchi codice manu scripto matritensi injuria neglecto . Paris 1880 (dissertation)
• Plutarque, Vie de Démosthène. Texts grec, revu sur le manuscrit du Madrid, accompagné d'une notice sur Plutarque et sur les sources de la vie de Démosthène, d'un argument et de notes en français . Paris 1881
• Plutarque, Vie de Cicéron suivie du Parallèle de Démosthène et de Cicéron. Texts grec, revu sur le manuscrit du Madrid, accompagné d'une notice sur Plutarque et sur les sources de la vie de Cicéron, d'un argument et de notes en français . Paris 1881

published posthumously

• Oeuvres. Edition posthumous dirigée par son père et suveillée par Ch. Émile Ruelle . Two volumes, Paris 1884–1886
  • Volume 1 (1884) Notices bibliographiques et autres articles publiés dans les Revues critique, historique, de philologie, et internationale, de l'enseignement
  • Volume 2 (1886) Textes grecs
• Gaston Paris, Ernest Lavisse (ed.): L'université de Salamanque: avec deux discours . Paris 1887
• Albert Martin (Ed.): Notices sommaires des manuscrits grecs de Suède . Paris 1889
• Albert Martin (Ed.): Fac-similés de manuscrits grecs d'Espagne . Paris 1891
• Albert Martin (Ed.): Notices sommaires des manuscrits grecs d'Espagne et de Portugal . Paris 1892
• Charles-Émile Ruelle (Ed.): Les articles originaux publiés dans divers recueils . Paris 1893
• Correspondance d'Espagne . New York 1905

literature

• Émile Châtelain: Charles Graux . In: Revue de philologie . 1882, p. 104
• Louis Duchesne : Biography de Charles Graux . In: Bulletin critique . 2nd year (1882), pp. 356–358
• Conrad Bursian : Charles Graux . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Alterthumskunde . 5th year (1882), 1883, pp. 18–22 (with list of publications)
• Mélanges Graux. Recueil de travaux d'érudition classique dedié a la mémoire de Charles Graux . Paris 1885 (memorial, with picture)
• Gaston Paris, Ernest Lavisse: Charles Graux . Paris 1885
• John Edwin Sandys : A Short History of Classical Scholarship . Cambridge 1915, p. 371
• Dictionnaire de Biographie Française . Volume 16 (1982), Col. 1096f.