Jean Bouffartigue

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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 .

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personal data
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