Jean-François Boissonade
Jean-François Boissonade de Fontarabie (born August 12, 1774 in Paris , † September 8, 1857 in Passy ) was a French classical philologist .
Live and act
Jean-François Boissonade's family came from Gascony . After studying at the Collège d'Harcourt in Paris, he entered the civil service in 1792. After his dismissal in 1795, he was reinstated by Lucien Bonaparte in 1799 and appointed secretary in the prefecture of the Haute-Marne department.
In addition to his job, Boissonade dealt with Greek literature. In order to be able to concentrate fully on his studies, he finally resigned from civil service. In addition to his research work, he took up academic teaching at the University of Paris in 1809 , where he was appointed professor of Greek language and literature in 1813. In 1828 he switched to the chair of Greek language at the Collège de France . He was also head of the Bibliothèque du Roi and permanent secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions . Since 1848 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
On July 22, 1856, Boissonade married Marie-Rose Boutry in Paris and had a son with her, who later became the legal scholar Gustave Boissonade .
On September 8, 1857, Jean François Boissonade de Fonarabie died in Passy and found his final resting place on the Cimetière de Montmartre (Division 16).
reception
Boissonade was one of the most prolific editors of Greek literature. His text editions made many remote authors available for research, but did not permanently meet the demands of scientific text criticism . Nevertheless, his life's work is an important achievement in French philology of the 19th century. He edited many texts for the first time .
Honors
- The rue Boissonade in Paris ( 14th arrondissement ) is named in his honor.
Works
- Greek and Latin authors
- Flavius Philostratos : Héroïques . Paris 1806.
- Flavius Philostratus: Lettres . Paris 1842.
- Marinos of Neapolis : Vie de Procus . Paris 1814.
- Tiberius Rhetor: Des figures de Démosthène . Paris 1815.
- Lukas Holste : Lettres . Paris 1817.
- Nicetas Eugenianus: Drosilla et Charicles . Paris 1819 (2 vol.)
- Ailios Herodianos : Catégories . Paris 1819.
- Eunapios of Sardis : Vie des philosophes et des sophistes . Paris 1822.
- Aristainetos : Lettres . Paris 1822.
- Ovid : Metamorphoses . Paris 1822.
- Nouveau Testament . Paris 1824 (2 vol.)
- Sindbad the philosopher: Livre de Sindbad . Paris 1828.
- Plato : Gorgias . Paris 1834.
- Aeneas of Gaza: Dialogue sur l'immortalité de l'âme et la résurrection des corps . Paris 1836.
- Michael Psellos : De operatione daemonum . Paris 1838.
- Babrios : Fables . Paris 1844.
- Chorikios of Gaza : œuvres diverse . Paris 1846.
- Georgios Pachymeres : œuvres diverse . Paris 1848.
- Diogenes Laertios : Vies, doctrine et sentences des philosophes illustres . Paris 1850.
- Johannes Tzetzes : Allégories de l ' Iliade . Paris 1851.
- Pindar : Odes . Paris 1867.
- Poetarum graecorum sylloge . Paris 1823/26 (24 vols.)
- Anecdota graeca . Paris 1829/33 (5 vol.)
- Anecdota nova . Paris 1844.
- French authors
- Voltaire : Lettre inédites à Frédéric-Le-Grand . Paris 1802.
- François Fénelon : Aventures de Télemaque . Paris 1824 (2 vol.)
- Évariste de Parny : Œuvres choisies . Paris 1827.
- Translation from Portuguese
- António Dinis da Cruz e Silva : Le Goupillon. Poème herroï-comique . Paris 1828.
literature
- Philippe Le Bas : Notice biographique et littéraire sur MJ Fr.Boissonade . Paris 1857.
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Jean-François Boissonade at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 29, 2016.
- ↑ Includes u. a. Texts by Anacreon , Aeschylus , Aristophanes , Euripides , Hesiod , Homer , Julian and Basilissa and Paulus Silentiarius .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-François Boissonade in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Literature by Jean-François Boissonade in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Jean-François Boissonade in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boissonade, Jean-François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boissonade de Fontarabie, Jean-François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1774 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1857 |
| Place of death | Passy (Paris) |