Louis Roussel
Louis Roussel (* 1881 in Nîmes , † 1971 in Montpellier ) was a French Graecist and Neo-Greekist .
After studying in Montpellier and at the Sorbonne, Roussel was a member of the École française d'Athènes in 1906 and became the first director of the Institut français d'Athènes in 1907 . In this way he turned to the modern Greek culture and literature. He later taught in Aix-en-Provence and at INALCO in Paris.
In 1925 he was finally appointed professor of ancient Greek language and literature at the University of Montpellier .
Roussel published widely on modern Greek culture and literature. He turned to field research when he documented stories from the island of Mykonos in shorthand. He was also one of the first to cover the Karagiozis Theater. Authors on whom he published were among others Aristotelis Valaoritis , Andreas Kalvos and Jean Moréas . In addition, he also translated various works of ancient Greek literature such as the Persians of Aeschylus and the king Oedipus of Sophocles .
From December 1922 to July 1936 he published first from Athens, from 1925 on in Montpellier the magazine Libre , which was dedicated to the intellectual life of Greece.
Fonts (selection)
- La prononciation de l'Attique classique (1921).
- Valaoritis traducteur (1922).
- Contes de Mycono (1929).
- Palamas et Mistral (1930).
- L'aspect en grec attique (1958).
literature
- Bertrand Hemmerdinger: Louis Roussel. In: Orbis. Bulletin International de Documentation Linguistique , Louvain, Center International de Dialectologie Générale, Tome VI, n ° 1, 1957, pp. 241–245.
- Despina Kapodistria (Δέσποινα Καποδίστρια): Γάλλοι Ελληνιστές και ο Λεωνίδας Χ. Ζώης (Άγνωστη Αλληλογραφία). In: Επτανησιακά φύλλα 26, 2006, 437–463, (excerpt online) . - ("French Neo-Graecists and Leonidas Ch. Zois (unknown correspondence)")
- Georges Milliex: L'Institut français d'Athènes, fils spirituel de l'École française. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 120, 1996, pp. 69-82, (online) .
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis Roussel in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- École française d'Athènes: Anciens Membres français de l'ÉfA ( Memento of January 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Louis Roussel: 1906)
- University of Montpellier, Grec modern: Le Fonds Louis Roussel - estate, consisting of 2,300 volumes as well as high-quality photographs of the city of Athens
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roussel, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Graecist and Neo-Greekist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nîmes |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1971 |
| Place of death | Montpellier |