Jacqueline Pirenne

Jacqueline Pirenne (* 1918 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ; † November 8, 1990 in Strasbourg ) was a French archaeologist .

Life

The granddaughter of the Belgian historian Henri Pirenne attended the Lycée Molière in Paris ( 16th arrondissement ) and finished her studies at the Louvain University . From 1957 to 1985 she worked at the Center national de la recherche scientifique , most recently as scientific director.

The focus of her research was in southern Arabia ( Yemen , especially the ancient Saba and Qataban , compare al-Masajid , where she researched changes in the typeface of inscriptions) and Ethiopia . There Pirenne researched the Semitic languages on the Arabian Peninsula . Around 1985 she returned to France forever and accepted a teaching position at the University of Strasbourg .

Fonts (selection)

• Paleography of the inscriptions sud-arabes . Presses de la Academie, Brussels 1955/57 (4 vol.).
• La Grèce et Saba. Une nouvelle base par le chronologie sud-arabe . In: Mémoires présentés par divers savants à l ' Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Vol. 15, 1957, pp. 89-196.
• A la découverte de l'Arabie. Cinq siècles de science et d'aventure . Paris 1958.
• Le royaume sud-arabe de Quataban et sa datation d'Apres l'archeologie et les sourches classiques jusqu'au Periple de la Mer erithree . Publication universitaires, Louvain 1961.
• Aux Origines de la graphie syriaque . Geuthner, Paris 1963.

literature

• Ernest Will : Jacqueline Pirenne. In: Syria. Archéologie, art et histoire , Vol. 68 (1991), pp. 465-466, ISSN  0768-2506 (full text) .

Web links

• Jacqueline Pirenne at archeology.about.com
• Literature by and about Jacqueline Pirenne in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Remarks

1. ↑ Elizabeth Monroe: Philby of Arabia. Quartet Books, London 1980, p. 277, ISBN 0-704-33346-5 .
2. ^ Hermann von Wissmann : Collection Eduard Glaser III, On the history and regional studies of Old South Arabia , pp. 31–32; 262 and 210 (shown on the card).