Charles Picard

Charles Picard (born June 7, 1883 in Arnay-le-Duc ( Côte-d'Or ), † December 15, 1965 in Paris ) was a French classical archaeologist .

Picard studied after attending the Lycée in Poitiers from 1905 at the École normal supérieure in Paris, which he graduated in 1908 with the Agrégation . From 1909 to 1913 he was a member of the École française d'Athènes , of which he was general secretary in 1913/14. After military service from 1914 to 1918, he was a lecturer in archeology at the University of Bordeaux from 1919/20 , before becoming director of the École française d'Athènes from 1919 to 1925. From 1925 to 1927 he was professor of archeology at the University of Lyon . At the University of Paris he was professor of Greek history from 1927 to 1934 and of ancient art history from 1934 to 1955, and from 1937 to 1961 director of the Institut d'art et d'archéologie . Since 1932 he was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres .

His son Gilbert Charles-Picard was also a classical archaeologist, as was his grandson Olivier Picard , who was director of the École française d'Athènes from 1981 to 1992. His daughter Yvonne Picard (1920–1943), philosopher and member of the Resistance , was murdered in Auschwitz.

literature

• François Chamoux: Notice su la vie et les travaux de M. Charles Picard. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Volume 131, 1987, pp. 460-474 ( full text ).
• Ève Gran-Aymerich : Picard, Charles. 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. 968 f.