Marcel Durry

Marcel Durry (born September 9, 1895 in Tavey , † January 23, 1978 in Paris ) was a French classical philologist .

Life

After attending school, Marcel Durry volunteered in the First World War (from October 1914). In 1915 he was taken prisoner and was only released after the war. From 1919 he studied classical philology and archeology at the École normal supérieure in Paris and from 1921 at the École française de Rome , where Jérôme Carcopino and Maurice Besnier were his teachers. After his return in autumn 1924, Durry initially taught for a short time at the grammar school in Amiens and then went on to teach at Grenoble University (from 1924). In 1932 he moved to the University of Caen , where he received his doctorate in 1938 .

During the German occupation of France in World War II , Durry received a call to the Sorbonne in 1942 , which he immediately followed. But the following year he was dismissed for protesting against the Vichy regime and went to Algiers , where he joined the resistance movement under René Capitant , worked in the education authority of the provisional government and held lectures at the University of Algiers . After the liberation of Paris he returned there and continued to work with René Capitant, who was Minister of Education under Charles de Gaulle from 1944 to 1946. Durry was appointed professor at the Sorbonne in 1944. In the following year he received the chair of Latin after the death of Pierre Roussel .

In the following decades Durry was primarily active as a science organizer, including as a member of the Association Rome-Athènes (President 1950/51) and the Société des Études Latines : From 1955 until his death he was a representative of this society in the International Thesaurus - Commission; from 1963 he also acted as administrateur of the Societé (from 1977 administrateur honoraire) and as editor of its organ Revue des Études Latines . After Jules Marouzeau's death , he was co-editor of the bibliographic journal L'Année philologique from 1964 . At the Sorbonne he was dean of the Faculté des Lettres from 1964 to 1968. His commitment to international cooperation in classical studies culminated in the presidency of the Fédération Internationale des Associations d'Études Classiques (1969–1974).

Durry's research focus was the Roman Empire , whose political history, literature and culture he researched in depth. His two doctoral dissertations (1938) were a monograph on the Praetorian Guard and a critical edition with a commentary by Pliny the Younger Panegyricus on Trajan , which he published again in 1947 with a French translation in the Budé Collection . In the same series, Durry published an edition of Laudatio Turiae in 1950 .

Marcel Durry was with the literary scholar and poet Marie-Jeanne Durry , b. Walter (1901–1980), married. The couple had two children, the legal scholar Georges Durry (* 1930) and the sports journalist and official Jean Durry (* 1936).

Fonts (selection)

• Les Cohortes prétoriennes . Paris 1938. 2nd edition 1968
• Le Panégyrique de Trajan . Paris 1938
• Pline le Jeune, Lettres. Tome IV: Livre X. Panégyrique de Trajan . Paris 1947. Numerous new editions, ISBN 978-2-251-01192-9
• Éloge funèbre d'une matrone romaine (Éloge dit de Turia). Texts établi, traduit et commenté par M. Durry . Paris 1950. Numerous new editions, ISBN 978-2-251-01090-8
• Mélanges Marcel Durry . 2 volumes, Paris 1970 ( Revue des Études Latines 47)

literature

• Manuel Fernández Galiano: Marcel Durry (9.9.1895-23.1.1978) . In: Estudios clásicos . Volume 21 (1977), pp. 331-334.
• Pierre Grimal : Le doyen Marcel Durry (1895–1978) . In: Revue des Études Latines . Vol. 55 (1977), pp. 28-32.
• Jacques Heurgon : Marcel Durry . In: Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé . Year 1978, pp. 1–3.
• Viktor Pöschl : Marcel Durry † . In: Gnomon . Volume 50 (1978), p. 621.

Web links

• Short biography in the Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum (Italian)