Juliette de La Genière
Juliette Olga de La Genière (née Massenet) (born August 4, 1927 in Mulhouse ) is a French classical archaeologist .
Juliette de La Genière studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (graduated in 1949). She completed her studies at the École du Louvre in 1954. From 1958 to 1969 she did research at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) ; at the same time she worked at the Louvre . With a thesis on the Bronze Age in southern Italy was in 1968 a doctorate .
From 1969 until her retirement she was first Maître de Conférences, then professor at the University of Lille , and from 1978 head of the newly founded Center de recherches archéologiques. In addition, she taught at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa from 1983 to 1985 .
She led excavations in Klaros (1988–1997) and at the Hera temple in Paestum . She has been director of the International Committee of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum since 2002 .
The preferred fields of work at La Genière concern the mutual influence of Greek and foreign cultures, especially in Magna Graecia and Asia Minor , Greek social history and religious history as well as Greek ceramics, especially Attic pottery.
Memberships and honors
- Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (2000)
- Member of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici
- Member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute
- Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute
- Corresponding member of the Archaeological Institute of America
- Member of the Legion of Honor (Officier)
- Ordre national du Mérite (Commandeur)
- Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Commandeur)
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier)
- Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Grand Officer)
literature
- Annick Coudart: Archeology of French Women and French Women in Archeology . In: Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (Eds.): Excavating Women. A history of women in European archeology . Routledge, London 1998, ISBN 0-415-15760-9 , pp. 59-84, p. 71 digitized
Web links
- Literature by and about Juliette de La Genière in the catalog of the German National Library
- La Genière Juliette de . Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, Journal Officiel de la République Française, January 1, 2006, p. 15 , PDF document, accessed on March 14, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | La Genière, Juliette de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | La Genière, Juliette Olga de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Classical Archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mulhouse |