Hippolyte Noiret

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Stained glass window in Louvergny Church with a portrait of noirets. His father came from Louvergny and had the glass window installed at his own expense (photo from 2014)
Grave monument for Noiret in the Rethel cemetery (postcard from 1928)

Hippolyte Noiret (born May 22, 1864 in Rethel ; † January 9, 1888 in Venice ) was a French medieval historian who specialized in the history of Crete in the Venetian era and edited important sources . He died at the age of 23.

life and work

Hippolyte Noiret was born on May 22, 1864 in Rethel in the Ardennes department as the son of Hippolyte Octave Noiret (1831-1912), who ran a spinning mill. His father was wealthy and influential, at times mayor of Rethel and a member of the Conseil général des Ardennes .

Hippolyte Noiret studied at the École normal supérieure in Paris and in 1886 became a member of the École française de Rome . He died of typhus on January 9, 1888 during a research stay in Venice .

He could not see any of his publications. He also corrected the proofs of his edition of eight unedited letters by Demetrios Chalkokondyles , a Greek humanist , scholar and professor of Greek studies in Italy . His book Lettres inédites de Michel Apostolis publiés d'aprés les manuscrits du Vatican avec des opuscules inédits du même auteur , of which he had already held the first proofs , appeared only four years after his death. Michael Apostolios lived from 1422 to 1478. He was a scholar who earned his living in Crete from around 1455 by translating Greek manuscripts. Previously, 47 letters from Apostolios, including one incomplete, had been published, but Noiret had discovered a further 74 of his letters in the Vatican and prepared them for edition.

He did not live to see the publication of his 600-page main work, the Documents inédits pour servir à l'histoire de la domination vénitienne en Crète de 1380 à 1485, tirés des archives de Venise . In the work published in Paris in 1889, Noiret had collected all entries of the Senate resolutions from the series Senato Misti , Register 40–60 (1385–1440) and Senato Mar , Register 1–12 (1440–1485), which referred to Crete.

reception

His father donated 20,000 francs to the École Normale Supérieure in 1888, with which a scholarship named after his son was to be awarded, the Bourse Hippolyte Noiret . In 1893 his father founded a crèche named after him in Rethel, and in 1898 an old people's home named after him in Fouilloy (Somme) .

In 1973 Agostino Pertusi called his work on Crete “la più pregevole raccolta di documenti cretesi”. Han Lamers dedicated his work Greece Reinvented in 2016 . Transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy to the scientist who died young.

Publications

  • Huit lettres inédites de Démétrius Ohalcondyle , in: Melanges d'archéologie et d'histoire 7 (1887) 472-500 ( digitized version ).
  • Lettres inédites de Michel Apostolis publiés d'aprés les manuscrits du Vatican avec des opuscules inédits du même auteur (= Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome Volume 54). E. Thorin, Paris 1892 ( digitized version ).
  • Documents inédits pour servir à l'histoire de la domination vénitienne en Crète de 1380 à 1485, tirés des archives de Venise (= Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome , 61). Thorin & fils, Paris 1889 ( digitized ).

literature

  • Annonce du décès de M. Hippolyte Noiret, membre de l'École française de Rome , in: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1888, p. 5 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Edmond Le Blant : Nécrologie , in: Melanges d'archéologie et d'histoire 8 (1888) 215-217 ( digitized version ).
  • Edmond Le Blant: Lettre du directeur de l'École française de Rome , in: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1888 , pp. 31-32 ( digitized ).
  • Stéphane Gsell : Notice biographique sur Hippolyte Noiret, 1864–1888 , in: Annuaire de l'Association des anciens élèves de l'École normal supérieure (1889) 62–67.
  • À la mémoire de Hippolyte Noiret 1864–1888 [Lille 1889] (including Gsell's obituary and five speeches on the occasion of the funerals in Venice and Rethel).

Web links

Commons : Hippolyte Noiret  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ To the father Les patrons du Second Empire : Volume 8: Champagne-Ardenne . Picard, Paris 2006, pp. 73ff. ISBN 2-7084-0755-4 .
  2. ↑ Huit lettres inédites de Démétrius Ohalcondyle , in: Melanges d'archéologie et d'histoire 7 (1887) 472-500.
  3. ^ According to HN in a review in The Classical Review 4 (1890) 45 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Revue internationale de l'enseignement 16, 1888, p. 292 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Agostino Pertusi: Venezia e il Levante fino al secolo XV . Olschki, Florenz 1973, p. 480.
  6. ↑ Han Lamers: Greece Reinvented. Transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy . Brill, Leiden 2016, SX
personal data
SURNAME Noiret, Hippolyte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medieval historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Rethel
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1888
Place of death Venice