Jean Bollack
Jean Bollack (born March 15, 1923 in Strasbourg , † December 4, 2012 in Paris ) was a French classical philologist and philosopher .
Life
Jean Bollack was born into an Alsatian - Jewish family and grew up bilingually. He attended the humanistic grammar school in Basel . There was Georg Peter Landmann be Latin and Greek teacher. He studied classical philology at the University of Basel , a. a. with Peter von der Mühll and Albert Béguin , and from 1945 at the University of Paris , where he worked with Pierre Chantraine .
From 1955 to 1958 Bollack was visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin , from 1958 to 1992 he was professor of Greek literature and philosophy at the University of Lille . There he founded the Research Center for Philology and Hermeneutics ( Center de recherche philologique ) and a center for the history of interpretation at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris) . His research direction, supported by numerous important students, is known as the École de Lille . 1982/1983 he was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .
The philologist Mayotte Bollack was his wife and at the same time a close collaborator. He had a close friendship with the poet Paul Celan .
Bollack's work focused on ancient Greek tragedy and philosophy , hermeneutics and literary theory, the history of philology and universities, as well as modern and contemporary literature. In all of these areas he is concerned with working out a “general philology”. He was the editor of Fischer Weltgeschichte .
Works (selection)
On Greek tragedy and philosophy
- Empédocle 1: introduction à l'ancienne physique , Paris, Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1965.
- Empédocle 2: "Les Origines" , Edition et traduction des fragments et des témoignages, Paris, Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1969.
- Empédocle 3: "Les Origines" , Commentaire, Paris, Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1969.
- Heraclite ou la séparation , en collaboration avec Heinz Wismann , Paris, Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1972.
- La Grèce de personne: les mots sous le mythe , Paris, Seuil, coll. "L'ordre philosophique", 1997.
- Euripide , Iphigénie à Aulis , trad. En coll. Avec Mayotte Bollack , Paris, Minuit, 1990.
- Euripide, Andromaque , trad. En coll. Avec Mayotte Bollack , Paris, Minuit, 1994.
- La naissance d'Oedipe , (traduction et commentaires d'Oedipe roi), Gallimard, 1995.
- Euripide, Hélène , trad. En coll. Avec Mayotte Bollack , Paris, Minuit, 1997.
- Sophocle , Antigone , trad. En coll. Avec Mayotte Bollack , Paris, Minuit, 1999.
- Euripide, Les Bacchantes , trad. En coll. Avec Mayotte Bollack , Paris, Minuit, 2004.
- Dionysus et la tragédie , Bayard, 2005.
- Parménide , de l'étant au monde , Verdier poche, Lagrasse poche, 2006
On hermeneutics
- Sens contre sens. Comment lit-on? Entretiens avec Patrick Llored .2000.
On the history of philology
- Jacob Bernays : un homme entre deux mondes , Paris 1998. German translation by Tim Trzaskalik: A man between two worlds: the philologist Jacob Bernays. With a foreword by Renate Schlesier . Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0489-5 .
- Mallarmé . Edited and translated by Tim Trzaskalik. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-159-5 .
To Paul Celan
- Pierre de coeur (Un poème inédit de Paul Celan), Pierre Fanlac Editeur, 1991.
- Paul Celan. Poetics of Foreignness (Vienna 2000).
- Poésie contre poésie (Celan et la littérature), Puf, "Perspectives germaniques", 2001.
- L'écrit. Une poétique dans l'œuvre de Paul Celan (2003)
Editing / history
- Series editor of Fischer Weltgeschichte (36 volumes, 1966–1981)
literature
- Denis Thouard: Philology et langage. Autour de Jean Bollack et du Center de recherche philologique de Lille . In: S. Bousquet (Ed.): Diversité de la (des) science (s) du langage aujourd'hui. Figures, modèles et concepts épistémologiques (= Langages. Vol. 32, No. 129). 1998, pp. 64-75 ( online ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Bollack in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jean Bollack's website (French)
- Literature by and about Jean Bollack in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Jackson : Jean Bollack, philologue et helléniste. In: Le Monde.fr . December 5, 2012, accessed December 8, 2012
- ↑ a b Christoph König : The philologist as a master. On the death of Jean Bollack . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 6, 2012, p. 32.
- ↑ Jean Bollack on the website of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, accessed on July 9, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bollack, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French philologist and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 2012 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |