Pierre de La Coste-Messelière

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Pierre de La Coste-Messelière (full name Pierre René Marie Fernand Médéric François Frotier, marquis de La Coste-Messelière ; born March 3, 1894 in the Château des Ouches in Saint-Génard ; died January 4, 1975 ibid) was a French Classical archaeologist .

Career

Pierre de La Coste-Messelière began in 1911 to study humanities at the Sorbonne in Paris , which he graduated in 1913 with a license . The First World War , in the course of which he acquired the Croix de guerre 1914–1918 as a cuirassier , with its consequences - an injury sustained in 1917 - interrupted La Coste-Messelier's scientific career until 1920.

In 1921 he became a French teacher at the Institut français d'Athènes and at the same time a member of the École française d'Athènes . He taught at the institute until 1923, and worked at the École until 1924.

Pierre de La Coste-Messelière was in 1927 Chargé de conférences at the 4th section for historical and philological sciences of the École pratique des hautes études . In 1930 he was appointed deputy professor there, and in 1932 professor (directeur d'études) for Greek epigraphy and antiquities. The University of Paris received his doctorate in 1936, the title of his doctoral thesis was Recherches sur quelques monuments archaïques. At the beginning of the Second World War , Pierre de La Coste-Messelière was drafted again, took part in the rank of Capitaine until 1940 and was once again awarded the Croix de guerre . In 1964 he retired from the École pratique des Hautes Études.

Act

Athens with its archaeological collections, but above all the excavation of the École français in Delphi, determined the content of the research and interest of Pierre de La Coste-Messelière. One epoch and its art had drawn him under its spell in particular: the art of archaicism . At the end of the 1920s, he was one of the leading international researchers in this field, a domain dominated by German research from Adolf Furtwängler to Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt . Three comprehensive volumes of the Fouilles de Delphes on archaic art alone were the result of his research. For this he took part in 15 other excavation campaigns in Delphi even after he left the École française d'Athènes in 1924 to 1961. Even if he flirted with understanding something of archaic art alone, he represented a broad spectrum of ancient art history in research and teaching.

Pierre de La Coste-Messelière, who was also a member of the Ouches parish council from 1919 to 1959, was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1944 . He was also a member of numerous learned societies.

Memberships and honors

Publications (selection)

A bibliography by Pierre de La Coste-Messelière was published in the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique .

  • with Charles Picard : École française d'Athènes. Sculptures grecques de Delphes. De Boccard, Paris 1927.
  • with Charles Picard: Art archaïque: Les trésors “ioniques” (= École française d'Athènes. Fouilles de Delphes. Volume 4: Monuments figurés, sculpture. Fascicle 2). De Boccard, Paris 1928.
  • Art archaïque (fin): Sculptures des temples (= École française d'Athènes. Fouilles de Delphes. Volume 4: Monuments figurés, sculpture. Fascicle 3). De Boccard, Paris 1931.
  • Au musée de Delphes. Recherches sur quelques monuments archaïques et leur décor sculpté. De Boccard, Paris 1936
  • Delphes. De Chêne, Paris 1943 (new edition Hachette, Paris 1957).
  • Sculptures du trésor des Athéniens (= École française d'Athènes. Fouilles de Delphes. Volume 4: Monuments figurés, sculpture. Fascicle 4). De Boccard, Paris 1957.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Supplement 4, 1977, pp. 7-12.
personal data
SURNAME La Coste-Messelière, Pierre de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marquis de La Coste-Messelière, Pierre René Marie Fernand Médéric François Frotier (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Génard
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1975
Place of death Saint-Génard