Georges Le Rider

Georges Le Rider (born January 27, 1928 in Saint-Hernin , † July 3, 2014 in Givors ) was a French classical scholar , numismatist and librarian . He was head of the French national library ( Bibliothèque nationale de France ) and was primarily concerned with the coins of the ancient Greek world.

Already an orphan at a young age, Le Rider studied from 1948 at the École normal supérieure . There he met Henri Seyrig , who developed into a kind of personal mentor for him. In 1952 he finished his studies with the Agrégation in classical philology . From 1952 to 1955 he worked at the École française d'Athènes , then until 1958 at the Institut français du Proche-Orient . Back in France, he got a job at the coin and antiquities collection of the French national library , the Cabinet des Médailles. He was appointed head of the company in 1961. In 1975 he was appointed head of the national library. In 1981 he left this post and was appointed director of the Institut français d'études anatoliennes in Istanbul . During these professional activities, Le Rider was also a lecturer at the École pratique des hautes études and briefly at the University of Lille . From 1970 to 1986 he was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (New Jersey) .

After returning from Turkey in 1984, he became a lecturer at the University of Paris IV , where he stayed until 1993. In 1989 he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . Two years later he took over a research group at the Center national de la recherche scientifique , which he headed until 1995. In 1993, Georges Le Rider was appointed professor of economic and monetary history of the Hellenistic Orient at the Collège de France , and in 1998 he retired .

Georges Le Rider was a member of various international scientific societies, of learned societies ( Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique , Polska Akademia Umiejętności , American Philosophical Society ) and of the International Numismatic Commission , as whose president he also served. The Université catholique de Louvain and the University of Lausanne each awarded him honorary doctorates . In 1977 he was accepted into the Legion of Honor and honored in 2008 with the Officer's Cross. In addition, he was an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite and commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and was awarded the Swedish North Star Order and the Senegalese Order of Lions . His son Jacques Le Rider is a German and cultural scientist.

Fonts

• Suse sous les Séleucides et les Parthes Les trouvailles monétaires et l'histoire de la ville (= Mémoires de la Mission Archéologique en Iran. 38, ZDB -ID 10780-3 ). Geuthner, Paris 1965, (dissertation).
• Monnaies crétoises du Ve au Ier siècle av. J.-C. (= Etudes crétoises. 15, ISSN  1105-2236 ). Geuthner, Paris 1966, (supplementary dissertation).
• Code for analysis of the monnaies. Éditions du Center national de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1975, ISBN 2-222-01816-1 .
• Le monnayage d'argent et d'or de Philippe II frappé en Macédoine de 359 à 294.Bourgey, Paris 1977, ISBN 2-902617-01-1 .
• with Hélène Nicolet: Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre (= Sylloge nummorum graecorum. France. (1)). Bibliothèque nationale de France et al., Paris et al. 1983, ISBN 2-7177-1588-6 .
• with Alain Davesne: Le Trésor de Meydancıkkale. (Cilicie-Trachée 1980) (= Gülnar. 2, 1-2). 2 volumes (text volume, table volume). Éditions Recherche sur les Civilizations, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-86538-195-1 .
• Monnayage et finances de Philippe II. Un état de la question (= Κέντρον Ελληνικής και Ρωμαϊκής Αρχαιότητος. Μελετήματα. 23). Center de recherches de l'antiquité grecque et romaine et al., Athens et al. 1996, ISBN 960-7094-92-1 .
• with Hélène Cadell: Prix ​​du blé et numéraire dans l'Égypte lagide de 305 à 173 (= Papyrologica Bruxellensia. 30, ISSN  0078-9402 ). Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, Brussels 1997.
• Séleucie du Tigre, les monnaies séleucides et parthes (= Missione in Iraq. 1 = Monograph di Mesopotamia. 6). Le Lettere, Florence 1998, ISBN 88-7166-442-6 .
• Antioche de Syrie sous les Séleucides. Corpus des monnaies d'or et d'argent. Volume 1: De Séleucos à Antiochus V. c. 300–161 (= Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Nouvelle Série 19, 1). Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-87754-107-X .
• La naissance de la monnaie. Pratiques monétaires de l'Orient ancien. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-13-051467-7 .
• Alexandre Le Grand. Monnaie, finances et politique. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-13-052940-2 .
• with François de Callataÿ: Les Séleucides et les Ptolémées. L'héritage monétaire et financier d'Alexandre le Grand. Éditions du Rocher, Monaco 2006, ISBN 2-268-05850-6 .

Web links

• Entry on Georges Le Rider on persee.fr
• Entry on Georges Le Rider on the website of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

literature

• Denis Knoepfler: Homage to Georges Le Rider (1928–2014), Chaire d'Histoire économique et monétaire de l'Orient hellénistique (1993–1998). In: La Lettre du Collège de France. Issue 40, August 2015, pp. 50–53 ( online version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Décret du 30 janvier 2008 portant promotion et nomination on legifrance.gouv.fr, accessed on 23 October 2018.