Jean Bouffartigue
Jean Bouffartigue (born July 16, 1939 in Fontainebleau , † February 28 / March 1, 2013 ) was a French Graecist .
In 1959 Bouffartigue entered the École Normale Supérieure . After this training he began his career at the Faculté des Lettres de Dijon as an assistant from 1964 to 1968. From 1968 to 1991 he was maître-assistant, then maître de conférences at the University of Paris X Nanterre . With an extensive dissertation on Emperor Julian , he earned the Doctorat d'État. From 1991 to 2005 he was then professor of ancient Greek. He was also a chercheur at the CNRS (head of UMR C 7113 with the title Textes, images et monuments de l'Antiquité au haut Moyen Âge ).
Bouffartigue's writings show him to be a profound expert on Greek late antiquity , culture, thought and philosophy in the first five centuries after Christianity. Among other things, he translated Porphyrios ' work on abstinence and part of the church history of Theodoret .
Fonts (selection)
- with Michel Patillon: Porphyre, De l'Abstinence . Tome 1 and 2. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1977 and 1979.
- L'Empereur Julien et la culture de son temps (= Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité. Volume 133). Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-85121-127-7 (Thèse de Doctorat d'État).
- with Pierre Canivet, Annick Martin, Luce Pietri, Françoise Thelamon: Théodoret, Histoire Ecclésiastique, livres I et II (= Sources Chrétiennes vol. 501). Paris 2006.
literature
- Culture classique et christianisme. Mélanges offerts à Jean Bouffartigue. Textes réunis par Danièle Auger et Étienne Wolff (Textes, images et monuments de l'Antiquité au Haut Moyen Âge). Éditions Picard, Paris 2008, ISBN 2-7084-0814-3 .
Web links
- Charles Guittard: Jean Bouffartigue (obituary)
- Guy Lachenaud, École Normale Supérieure: Jean Bouffartigue (obituary)
- Bibliography by Jean Bouffartigue (with photograph)
- Short biography on babelio.com
- Short biography on bibliomonde.com
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SURNAME | Bouffartigue, Jean |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Graecist and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Fontainebleau |
DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 2013 or March 1, 2013 |