Jérôme Carcopino

Jérôme Ernest Joseph Carcopino (born June 27, 1881 in Verneuil-sur-Avre ( Département Eure ), † March 17, 1970 in Paris ) was a French ancient historian , archaeologist and epigraphist .

Live and act

Carcopino studied since 1900 at the École normal supérieure , where he specialized in history . From 1904 to 1907 he was a member of the École française de Rome . From 1907 to 1911 he worked as a teacher in Le Havre . In 1912 he became a professor at the University of Algiers and inspector of antiquities in Algeria . His career was interrupted by World War I while serving in the Dardanelles . In 1920 he became a professor at the Sorbonne . From 1937 to 1940 he was director of the École française de Rome, 1940/41 and again from 1942 to 1944 he was director of the École normal supérieure. From February 25, 1941 to April 18, 1942 he was State Secretary for Éducation nationale et à la Jeunesse in the Vichy government . He was briefly detained in 1944 and lost his chair, but was rehabilitated in court in 1947.

Carcopino wrote important studies, particularly on Roman history , the sometimes bold hypotheses of which, however, often met with skepticism in research. His most popular main work, La Vie quotidienne à Rome à l'apogée de l'Empire ( Everyday life in ancient Rome during the heyday of the Empire ) deals with everyday life in ancient Rome during the heyday of the Empire. It has been translated into numerous languages ​​and appeared in several German editions.

He was a member of many archaeological and historical institutes in Europe. Since 1930 he was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , since 1955 of the Académie française . Since 1923 he was an external member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome.

Publications (selection)

• Virgile et les origines d'Ostie. - Paris: De Boccard, 1919
• La Basilique Pythagoricienne de la Porte Majeure. (= Études romaines vol. 1) Artisan du Livre, Paris 1926
• Autour des Gracques. Etudes Critiques. Paris, Societe D'Edition Les Belles Lettres, 1928.
• Virgile et le mystère de la 4e églogue. - 6th ed .-- Paris: L'Artisan du livre, 1930
• Ce que Rome et l'Empire Romain doivent à la Gaule. - Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932
• Points de vue sur l'imperialisme romain. Paris 1934
• La Vie quotidienne à Rome à l'apogée de l'Empire. Librairie Hachette, 1939.
  Translations:
  • Everyday life in ancient Rome during the heyday of the empire . Authorized translation from French by Lotte Schaukal. Innsbruck, Rohrer, 1950.
  • This is how the Romans lived during the imperial era . German Verl.-Anst., Stuttgart 1959.
  • Rome: Life and Culture in the Imperial Era . 4., bibliogr. Renewed edition Reclam, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-15-010382-7
  • Daily Life in Ancient Rome . Translated by EO Lorimer. Edited by Henry T. Rowell. Yale University Press, New Haven 1940; 2nd edition 2003 ( review )
• with Gustave Bloch : Histoire romaine; T. 2: La République romaine de 133 avant J.-C. à la mort de César. (2nd éd.). 1940
• Les Sécrets de la Correspondence de Cicéron. 2 vols. Paris: L'Artisan du Livre, 1947 (an English translation was published by Routledge in 1951)
• Histoire romaine; T. 2: La République romaine de 133 avant J.-C. à la mort de César. Sect. 2: César. 4. éd. 1950
• Études d'histoire chrétienne. - (5th mille). - Paris: Michel, 1953
• Passion et politique chez les Césars. - Paris: Hachette, 1958
• Alésia et les ruses de César. Paris: Flammarion, 1958
• Le Vatican. - Paris: Flammarion ([etc.]), (1958)
• Profils de conquérants. Paris, Flammarion, 1961

literature

• Henri-Irénée Marrou : Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Jérôme Carcopino, membre de l'Académie. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Volume 116, 1972, pp. 204-220 ( full text ).
• Société Archéologique de l'Aube (Ed.): Hommage à la mémoire de Jérôme Carcopino. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1977.
• Pierre Grimal , Claude Carcopino, Paul Oubliac: Jérôme Carcopino, un historien au service de l'humanisme. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-251-36521-4 .
• Stéphanie Corcy-Debray: Jérôme Carcopino, un historien à Vichy. Editions L'Harmattan, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7475-0831-5 .
• François Kirbihler: Carcopino, Jérôme. 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. 198 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jérôme Carcopino in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Jérôme Carcopino at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres