Théophile Homolle

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Homolle in an engraving by Stéphane Batigne around 1910

Théophile Homolle (born December 19, 1848 in Paris ; † June 13, 1925 there ) was a French classical archaeologist and epigraphist .

Théophile Homolle studied from 1869 at the École normal supérieure in Paris and from 1874 at the École française d'Athènes in Athens . From 1877 to 1887 he directed the French excavations on Delos . In 1887 he received his doctorate with a treatise on Deli inscriptions and one on archaic Artemis statues. After returning to France, he first taught at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Nancy , then as a professor of epigraphy and Greek archeology at the Collège de France . In 1891 he became director of the École française d'Athènes. Between 1892 and 1903 Homolle directed the excavations at Delphi . In 1904 he went back to France, successor in Athens was Maurice Holleaux . In France, Homolle became director of the Louvre and remained in that position until 1911, when he had to resign after the Mona Lisa was stolen. In 1912/13, Homolle briefly led the École française d'Athènes again. In 1913 he finally returned to France and became director of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , which he remained until 1923.

In 1892 Homolle became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , in 1901 a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and in 1910 a member of the Académie des beaux-arts . Homolle had been a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences since 1887, but resigned his membership in 1915 after an appeal to the cultural world of German academics. In 1919 he was one of the founders of the Union Académique Internationale . He was also an honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies .

literature

  • René Cagnat : Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Théophile Homolle. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1927, pp. 296-313 (full text) .
  • Werner Hartkopf: The Academy of Sciences of the GDR. A contribution to their history. Biographical Index , Akademie, Berlin 1983, p. 201.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 118.


personal data
SURNAME Homolle, Théophile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1925
Place of death Paris