Jacques Moreau (historian)

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Jacques Moreau (born September 12, 1918 in Lodelinsart, today in Charleroi , Belgium, † September 23, 1961 near Ankara ) was a Belgian ancient historian .

From 1935 he studied at the Free University in Brussels, among others with Henri Grégoire , Roger Goossens and Claire Préaux . After an exam in classical philology in 1939, he was assistant to Gregoire and a teacher at a grammar school. From 1950 he taught ancient history at the Saarland University , where he became an adjunct professor in 1951 and a full professor in 1953. In 1960 he accepted a chair at the University of Heidelberg . He died the following year with his colleague Hans Schaefer and eight young scientists in a plane crash during an excursion.

Moreau was particularly concerned with ancient Christianity (so he wrote a commentary on lactance ). He was a member of the Société Nationale des Antiquaires in France, the German Archaeological Institute and co-editor of the Lexicon of the Old World .

Fonts

  • La persécution du christianisme dans l'empire romain . Paris 1956.
    Dt. Transl .: The persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire . 2nd edition de Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-11-002456-X .
  • The world of the Celts . Kilpper, Stuttgart 1958. Revised. Ed. Phaidon, Essen 1985, ISBN 3-88851-087-2 .
  • Scripta minora . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1964.

literature

  • Wolfgang Müller: “Le maître qui représente si dignement l'humanisme belge à l'Université Européenne de la Sarre” - Jacques Moreau's work at the University of Saarland . In: Klaus Martin Girardet (Ed.): 50 Years of Old History at the Saarland University . Saarbrücken 2001, pp. 59–83 (Universitätsreden 47).
  • Walter Schmitthenner : Jacques Moreau † . In: Gnomon 33 (1961), pp. 841-843.
  • Walter Schmitthenner: Foreword. In: Jacques Moreau: Scripta Minora (= Annales Universitatis Saraviensis. Series: Philosophical Faculty. Volume 1). University Press Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1964, pp. 7-13.

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