Jean Bayet

Jean Alexis Bayet (born November 12, 1892 in Versailles , † December 5, 1969 in Paris ) was a French classical philologist .

He studied from 1912 at the École normal supérieure and was a member of the École française de Rome from 1917 to 1920 after the Agrégation . Then he was a high school teacher at the Lycée Charlemagne and at the grammar school in Laon . In 1926 he received his doctorate on the (partly Etruscan) origins of the Roman Hercules . He then taught at the Faculté des Lettres in Caen and from 1932 at the Sorbonne . After the war he was general director for education and from 1952 to 1960 director of the École française de Rome, succeeding Albert Grenier . From 1952 to 1954 he was in this function of the Unione internazionale degli Istituti di archeologia, storia e storia dell'arte in Rome.

In 1948 he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . He was also a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia .

Even as a child he had difficulty walking (which is why he was unable to pursue the originally planned military career) and became increasingly immobile in his final years.

His research topics were in particular Roman literature and Roman religious history.

Fonts (selection)

• Les Origines de l'Hercule romain (= Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome 132.) de Boccard, Paris 1926 (= dissertation)
• Litterature latine. Histoire, pages choisies. Armand Colin, Paris 1934 (and later editions)
• Histoire politique et psychologique de la religion romaine. Payot, Paris 1957

literature

• Michel Lejeune : Éloge funèbre de M. Jean Bayet. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1969, pp. 609-612 ( full text ).