Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin

Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin (born April 21, 1910 in Jupille near Liège , † February 8, 2012 in Liège) was a Belgian Iranist .

Life

Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin studied at the Catholic University of Leuven linguistics and was founded in 1931 with a dissertation on comparative grammar for et lettres Doctor in philosophy doctorate . He then deepened his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he obtained a certificate in Indology in 1933 . He obtained further academic degrees (diplomas) in Paris from the École pratique des hautes études (1933), the Institut Catholique (1936) and the Institut Linguistique (1937).

From 1938, Duchesne-Guillemin held lectures at the University of Liège . There he was appointed professor in 1943 and appointed to the chair of Indo-Iranian Studies . Visiting professorships took him to the University of London (1950–1957), Columbia University (1958–1959), the University of Chicago (1962) and the University of California, Los Angeles (1967 and 1975). In 1980 Duchesne-Guillemin retired. In 1986 Jean Kellens was appointed to his chair .

From 1973 Duchesne-Guillemin was the editor of the Acta Iranica series . The University of Tehran awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1975. In 1978 he was chairman of the French-speaking Belgium department of the International Association for the History of Religion .

Duchesne-Guillemin was a corresponding member of the Danish Academy of Sciences and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (since 1979). He was married to the musicologist Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin (1907–1997).

literature

• Acta Iranica. Fourth row. Volume 1: Bio-Bibliographies de 134 savants . Liege 1979. pp. 128-141
• Orientalia J. Duchesne-Guillemin emerito oblata . Leiden 1984
• Who's who in the world . 10th edition (1991/1992), p. 284

Web links

• Literature by and about Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin in the catalog of the German National Library
• 101st birthday article (French)