Pierre Chantraine

Pierre Chantraine 1972

Pierre Chantraine (born September 15, 1899 in Lille , † June 30, 1974 in Paris ) was a French Graecist .

After teaching at the University of Lyon from 1925 to 1928 , he was Directeur d'études de philologie grecque at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris from 1928 to 1969 , and from 1938 to 1969 he taught at the Sorbonne . In the Collection des Universités de France series , he edited the Oikonomikos des Xenophon and the Indicé des Arrian . He was one of the first scholars to study Mycenaean Greek after Michael Ventris and John Chadwick announced their decryption of Linear B in 1953 .

On January 30, 1953, he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . In 1970 he became a corresponding member of the British Academy .

Publications

• Histoire du parfait grec . 1927.
• La Formation des noms en grec ancien . 1933.
• Grammaire homérique . Part 1: Phonétique et Morphologie , Part 2: Syntaxes . Klincksieck, Paris 1942 and 1953;
  • T1: checked u. corrected edition 2006; T2: revised edition by Michel Casevitz 2015.
• Morphology historique du grec . Klincksieck, Paris 1945; 2nd edition 1961; Reprint, 2002.
• Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque . 4 volumes. Klincksieck, Paris 1968;
  • New edition in one volume, 1999, ISBN 2-252-03277-4 ;
  • revised edition by Jean Taillardat, Olivier Masson u. Jean-Louis Perpillou, 2009.

literature

• Michel Lejeune : Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Pierre Chantraine, membre de l'Académie. In: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 1974, 118-4, pp. 628-639.
• Françoise Létoublon: La langue et les textes en grec ancien. Actes du Colloque Pierre Chantraine, Grenoble, 5–8 September 1989. Gieben, Amsterdam 1992, ISBN 90-5063-066-9 (with biography and list of publications). Review in: André Wartelle, Revue des Études Grecques. 1994, Issue 107, pp. 238-239.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Michel Lejeune: Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Pierre Chantraine, membre de l'Académie. In: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 1974, 118-4, p. 635.
2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 13, 2020 .