Jean Charbonneaux

Jean Marie Augustin Charbonneaux (born January 15, 1895 in Genlis ( Département Côte-d'Or ); died February 21, 1969 in Paris ) was a French classical archaeologist .

Jean Charbonneaux, who was about to begin his studies at the Sorbonne at the beginning of the First World War , was sent to the Macedonian front as a young man and received the Croix de guerre for his bravery . After the end of the war he graduated in literature in 1920 and became a teacher at the high school in Chaumont . In 1921 he returned to Greece and became a member of the École française d'Athènes under its director Charles Picard . Here he devoted himself primarily to the exploration of Delphi , in particular the Marmaria, and the publication of the French excavation results from Delphi. In 1925 he published the results on the architecture of the Tholos in Marmaria in the Fouilles de Delphes . He remained a member of the École française until 1925 .

In 1926 Charbonneaux became a curator at the Musée du Louvre , but continued to publish scientific writings on excavations and general topics of classical archeology, such as the first excavation report on Fernand Chapouthier's excavation in Malia , in which he himself participated in 1924, in 1928, and L'art égéen 1929. By 1938 he edited the Bulletin préhellénique for the Revue des Études grecques , which reflected his close relationship with pre-Greek art and the history of Greece.

In 1945 he was appointed head of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the Louvre. His research now increasingly turned to the antiquities of the Louvre, but his work for the museum was primarily aimed at acquiring new antiques for the museum. Every year he held a course at the École du Louvre . The 1930s and 1940s were predominantly characterized by the preoccupation with sculpture, with modern artists such as Auguste Rodin and Aristide Maillol , both of whom were represented with works in the Louvre, also moving into his field of vision. In 1962 he became a full member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , shortly before his death in 1968 elected its president. Jean Charbonneaux died on February 21, 1969 as a result of a traffic accident.

Publications (selection)

• with Kaj Gottlob: La Tholos, 2: Relevés et restaurations . In: Fouilles de Delphes, 2. Topographie et architecture . E. de Boccard, Paris 1925.
• L'art égéen . G. van Oest, Paris and Brussels 1929
• Les terres cuites grecques . L. Reynaud, Paris 1936.
• La sculpture grecque archaïque . Éditions de Cluny, Paris 1939; German translation: Archaic sculpture of the Greeks . Translated by Rudolf Jakob Humm . Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1942.
• La sculpture grecque classique . La Guilde du livre, Lausanne 1942–45; German translation in 2 volumes: Classical sculpture of the Greeks . Volume 1, translated by Rudolf Jakob Humm. Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1943; Volume 2, translated by Hans Kauders. Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1949.
• L'art au siècle d'Auguste . Guilde du Livre, Lausanne 1948.
• Les sculptures de Rodin . F. Hazan, Paris 1949.
• Les bronzes grecs . Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1958.
• with Roland Martin and François Villard : Grèce archaïque (620–480 avant J.-C.) . Gallimard, Paris 1968, ( Univers des formes . Volume 14), 3rd edition 2009; German translation: Archaic Greece 620-480 BC Chr. Beck, Munich 1969; 2nd edition 1985, ISBN 3-406-03014-9 .
• with Roland Martin and François Villard: Grèce classique (480–330 avant J.-C.) . Gallimard, Paris 1969 ( Univers des formes . Volume 16), 3rd edition 2008; German translation: Classical Greece 480–330 BC Chr. Beck, Munich 1971; 2nd edition 1985, ISBN 3-406-03016-5 .
• with Roland Martin and François Villard: Grèce hellénistique (330–50 avant J.-C.) . Gallimard, Paris 1970 ( Univers des formes . Volume 18); German translation: Hellenistic Greece 330–350 BC Chr. Beck, Munich 1971; 2nd edition 1988, ISBN 3-406-31715-4 .
• with Pierre Pradel (ed.): Architecture et sculpture des origines à nos jours . 4 volumes. Fernand Nathan, Paris 1970.

literature

• Pierre Devambez : Jean Charbonneaux (1895-1969). In: Revue archéologique . 1969, pp. 119-20.
• Germaine Cart in: La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France. Volume 19, Issue 2, 1969, pp. 76-78.
• Pierre Demargne : Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Jean Charbonneaux, membre de l'Académie. In: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Volume 114, 1970, pp. 116-126 ( online ).

Web links

• Biography in the Dictionary of Art Historians .

• Literature by and about Jean Charbonneaux in the catalog of the German National Library