Maurice Croiset
Maurice Croiset (born November 20, 1846 in Paris , † February 15, 1935 ibid) was a French classical philologist ( Graecist ).
Life
Like his brother Alfred Croiset (1845-1923), who was also a classical philologist and professor at the Sorbonne, Croiset was taught in classical languages by his father (François) Paul Croiset (1814-1897), who was a high school professor at the Lycée Saint-Louis and taught literature. He studied from 1865 to 1868 at the École normal supérieure , where he graduated as the best, and was a student of Jules Lachelier , Gaston Boissier and Jules Girard . In 1868 he acquired his Agrégé de lettres and received his doctorate in 1874 with a dissertation on Demosthenes ( Idées morales dans l'éloquence politique de Démosthène, published in Montpellier 1874). Then he was a teacher in Moulins and Montpellier , where he also became a professor at the Faculté de Lettres. In 1891 he became Maître de conférences at the École normal supérieure in Paris and from 1893 he was professor of Greek language and literature at the Collège de France . From 1911 to 1929 he was administrator there and in 1931 he retired.
In 1903 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and was its president in 1916. In 1917 he was one of the founders of the Les Belles Lettres publishing house and in 1917 a co-founder and until his death chairman and Association Guillaume Budé . He was a Grand Officer in the Legion of Honor .
Fonts (selection)
- De publicae eloquentiae principiis apud Graecos in Homericis carminibus. Montpellier 1874.
- Des idées morales dans l'éloquence politique de Démosthène. 1874 ( online ).
- Essai sur la vie et les œuvres de Lucien. Hachette, Paris 1882 ( online ).
- with Alfred Croiset: Histoire de la littérature grecque. 5 volumes, 1887–1899.
- with Alfred Croiset: Manuel d'histoire de la littérature grecque à l'usage des lycées et collèges. Paris 1900 ( online ).
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Aristophane et les partis politiques à Athènes. 1906 ( online ).
- English translation: Aristophanes and the political parties at Athens. Macmillan 1909 ( online ).
- La morale et la cité dans les poésies de Solon. 1913 ( online ).
- Eschyle, études sur l'invention dramatique dans son théâtre. 1928.
- La Civilization de la Grèce antique. Apercu historique. 2 volumes, Payot, Paris 1922 ( volume 1 online ; volume 2 online ).
- La République de Plato. Etude et analyze. 1946 (unfinished on his death).
- Collège de France. In: La Vie Universitaire de Paris. 1918 ( online ).
He contributed to the Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines (ed. Charles Daremberg , Edmond Saglio ) and gave works by Plato (Hippias mineur, Alcibiade, Apologie de Socrate, Euthyphron, Criton, 1920), Demosthenes (Harangues, 1924–1925), Menander (L'Arbitrage 1908, The Arbitration Court) and Sophokles (Oedipe roi, 1931) edited or translated them.
literature
- Abel Lefranc: Funérailles de M. Maurice Croiset, membre de l'Académie. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1935, pp. 518-526 ( digitized version ).
- Edmond Faral: Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Maurice Croiset. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1944, pp. 78-101
- Aimé Puech: Maurice Croiset. In: Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé , Volume 47, 1935, pp. 3-9 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Information on Maurice Croiset in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Website at the Collège de France
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Croiset, Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Graecist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1935 |
| Place of death | Paris |