Jean Pouilloux

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Jean Pouilloux (born October 31, 1917 in Le Vert ; died May 23, 1996 in Condrieu ) was a French classical archaeologist , epigraphist, and science organizer.

Career

Jean Pouilloux began studying classical studies at the École normal supérieure - one of the grandes écoles - in Paris in 1939 . After the agrégation in 1943 he was a teacher at the Lycée in Angers from 1944 to 1945 . In 1945 he received a scholarship from the École française d'Athènes , of which he was a member until 1949. Here he laid the foundations of his future research, on the one hand by examining the epigraphic material of the Attic coastal fortress of Rhamnous , on the other hand by studying the inscriptions from the agora on Thasos . At the same time he began his Delphic research.

In 1951, Jean Pouilloux became an assistant for ancient history at the University of Lyon , and in 1954 he became a member of the École française d'Athènes. He received his doctorate in 1955 in Paris with the writings Recherches sur l'histoire et les cultes de Thasos published in 1954 . I: De la fondation de la cité à 196 avant Jésus-Christ as main thesis and the secondary doctoral thesis La forteresse de Rhamnonte. From 1955 to 1957 he was Maître de conférences at the University of Besançon , in 1957 he was employed in the same position at the University of Lyon, where he was soon appointed professor of the language, literature and civilization of ancient Greece - a position that he up to after his retirement in 1985. At the University of Lyon he founded the Fernand Courby Institute in 1959 , in whose premises, including the attached library, primarily epigraphic research is carried out and which continued and expanded the work of the Institut d'épigraphie grecque founded by Fernand Courby in 1923 . In 1967 it was raised to the rank of laboratoire , a research facility, of the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNSR). Jean Pouilloux was the director of the institute. In 1972 he became President of the Center de recherches archéologiques at the CNSR, until in 1976 he moved to the post of Scientific Director for Classical Studies at the CNRS. He held the position until 1982.

In 1975 he founded the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée (MOM) in Lyon , a research institution that today bears his name as Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean-Pouilloux and around 350 scholars from the fields of archeology , Ancient history and ephigraphy, but also chemistry, geology, political science and architecture. Until 1978 he was director of MOM. In 1986 he was President of the Fondation pour le Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae , in 1988 President of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , of which he was an elected member since 1978. In the same year he was President of the Institut de France , the umbrella organization of all French state academies.

Researches

In his research, Jean Pouilloux always took to heart the maxim of his teacher Louis Robert , when analyzing and studying ancient texts, be they literary or epigraphic evidence, to keep an eye on the natural framework of their creation and the legacies of the associated material culture. His studies of the fortress of Rhamnous already included topographical and historical aspects, and were devoted to the military life of such a border fortress, its relationship to the civil population of the associated demos and the local religious institutions. His research on the history of the island of Thasos took into account the geography of the island as well as the literary traditions. For many years, since his time in Athens, he devoted himself to exploring Delphi, particularly, but not exclusively, the inscriptions. The result were his contributions to the volumes of results of the Fouilles de Délphes as well as the monograph Énigmes à Delphes , written with Georges Roux , on the riddles of Delphi.

In 1960 he published one of his most fundamental works - a collection of Greek inscriptions with introductions, texts, translations and notes, which exemplify the fundamental importance of the inscriptions for the development of ancient Greek culture and history. At the same time he initiated the edition of the writings Philons of Alexandria for Sources Chrétiennes of the publishing house Éditions du Cerf , for which he was able to win Roger Arnaldez and Claude Mondésert as collaborators and co-editors from volume 3 .

Archaeological field research remained part of his scientific work. In 1964 he founded the French archaeological mission to explore the Cypriot city ​​of Salamis , which he directed until 1974. Together with Vassos Karageorghis , the head of the Antiquities Administration of Cyprus, he carried out two excavation campaigns a year. The results were also published regularly with contributions from Jean Pouilloux, who addressed problems of local religion, acculturation and authentic Cypriot culture.

Memberships and honors

Publications (selection)

  • Recherches sur l'histoire et les cultes de Thasos. Part I: De la fondation de la cité à 196 avant Jésus-Christ (= École française d'Athènes. Études thasiennes. Volume 3). Boccard, Paris 1954 ( digitized ).
  • La forteresse de Rhamnonte (= Bibliothèques de l'Ecole française d'Athènes et de Rome - Série Athènes. Volume 179). Boccard, Paris 1954 ( digitized ).
  • with Christiane Dunant: Recherches sur l'histoire et les cultes de Thasos. Part 2: De 196 avant J.-C. jusqu'a la fin de l'antiquite (= École française d'Athènes. Études thasiennes. Volume 5). Boccard, Paris 1957 ( digitized version ).
  • Fouilles de Delphes. Volume 2: Topographie et architecture. La region north du sanctuaire (de l'époque archaïque à la fin du sanctuaire). Boccard, Paris 1960.
  • Choix d'inscriptions grecques. Presses universitaires de Lyon, Lyon 1960.
  • with Georges Roux: Énigmes à Delphes. Boccard, Paris 1963.
  • Les œuvres de Philon d'Alexandrie. Éditions du Cerf, Paris:
    • Volume 9: De agricultura, 1961.
    • Volume 10: De plantatione, 1961.
    • Volume 22: De vita Mosis, I – II, 1967.
    • Volume 30: De æternitate mundi, 1969.
  • Fouilles de Delphes. Volume 3: Epigraphy. Part 4: Les inscriptions de la terrasse du temple et de la région nord du sanctuaire. N ° 351-516. Boccard, Paris 1976.

literature

  • Maison de l'Orient (Ed.): Hommages à Jean Pouilloux (= Collection de la Maison de l'Orient. Special volume 5). Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, Lyon 1998 ( digital version ).
  • Jean Marcadé : Jean Pouilloux (1917-1996). In: Revue archéologique . Nouvelle Série, Volume 2, 1996, pp. 415-417.
  • Georges Rougemont, Pierre Debord: Jean Pouilloux (1917–1996). In: Revue des études anciennes . Volume 98, 1996, pp. 269-271 ( digitized version ).
  • Pierre Toubert: Allocution à l'occasion du décès de M. Jean Pouilloux, académicien ordinaire. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Volume 140, 1996, pp. 629-631 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ website of the Institute Fernand Courby at the University of Lyon.
  2. ↑ See for example Jean Pouilloux: Archiloque et Thasos: histoire et poésie. In: Archiloque (= Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique. Volume 10). Fondation Hardt, Geneva 1964, pp. 3-27.
  3. ^ Vassos Karageorghis : Jean Pouilloux à Salamine de Chypre. In: Cahiers du Center d'Études Chypriotes. Volume 44, 2014, pp. 19-24 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Pouilloux, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical archaeologist, epigraphist and science organizer
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Vert
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1996
Place of death Condrieu