Charles Marie Wladimir Brunet de Presle

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Charles Marie Wladimir Brunet de Presle , initially: Charles Marie Wladimir Brunet , nickname Wladimir (born September 10, 1809 in Paris , † September 12, 1875 ibid) was a French Graecist , Byzantinist and Neo-Greekist .

Brunet's father (* 1768 in Besançon ; † 1841) carried out diplomatic activities (1795 in America , 1797 in Spain ). In 1821 the son got a tutor, Jules Berger de Xivrey (* 1801; † 1863), a young Graecist who was only nine years his senior , who took him to the academic events of Jean-François Boissonade and Karl Benedikt Hase . As a result, both came into contact with Félix Désiré Dehèque , Émile Egger and Adrien Prévost de Longpérier . In addition, his father received Greek refugees, one of whom named George Theocharopoulos taught him modern Greek. In philhellenischer enthusiasm about the victorious struggle for freedom of the Greeks Brunet translated with the help of which Maxime from La Rochefoucauld into Modern Greek to the Greeks to give a treatise on moral regeneration at hand. The French original and an accompanying English translation were intended to help the Greeks acquire modern foreign languages. The same enthusiasm prompted Brunet in the next few years to do extensive reading of ancient and Byzantine authors without publishing much. It was only when the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres put out a question about the history of Sicily in Great Greek times in 1840 that he found the opportunity worthy enough to submit a paper entitled Recherches sur les établissements des Grecs en Sicile , with which he won the price of the Académie won. In a second question of the Académie regarding the succession of the Egyptian dynasties , he was unsuccessful with his essay Examen critique de la succession des dynasties égyptiennes , but received an honorable mention. After the death of Jean Antoine Letronnes , Brunet was commissioned in 1850 to complete the edition of the Greek papyrus scrolls from Egypt prepared by this scholar with Émile Egger, who was to become a lifelong close friend, under the direction of Hase and Boissonade; it appeared in 1865 under the title: Les Papyrus grecs du musée du Louvre et de la Bibliothèque Imperiale , with an atlas of 52 facsimile sheets. The study of these roles and the discoveries of Auguste Mariette in Memphis led him to the Mémoire sur le Sérapéum de Memphis . In 1852 he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions. Another major work is the edition of the historical work of Michael Attaleiates . After Hase's death in 1864, he successfully applied for the professorship for Modern Greek at the École des langues orientales .

Brunet married his cousin Émilie de Presle († 1855) and subsequently took their family name de Presle as an addition to their name.

Fonts (selection)

  • Γνώμαι και σκέψεις ηθικαί του δουκός Δε-Λα-Ροσφουκώ (Maximes et réflexions morales du duc de La Rochefoucauld - Maxims and Moral reflections by the Duke de la Rochefoucauld ). Traduites en grec modern par Wladimir Brunet, revues et corrigées par George Théocharopoulos de Patras, avec une traduction anglaise en regard. F. Didot, Paris 1828.
  • Research on the ètablissements des Grecs en Sicile . Imprimerie Royale, Paris 1845.
  • L'examen critique de la succession des dynasties Egyptiennes . Didot, Klincksieck, Paris 1850.
  • Mémoire sur le Sérapéum de Memphis , in: Mémoires présentés par divers savants à l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de l'Institut de France, sér. 1, t. 2, 1852, 552-576.
  • Michaelis Attaliotae Historia . Opus a Wladimiro Bruneto de Presle, Instituti Gallici socio, inventum, descriptum, correctum recognovit Immanuel Bekker . Bonn 1853 (Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae), (online)
  • Extrait d'une notice sur les tombeaux des empereurs de Constantinople lu dans la séance publique annuelle du 8 août 1856. Impr. De F. Didot frères, fils et Cie, Paris 1856.
  • Grèce depuis la conquête romaine jusqu'à nos jours . F. Didot frères, Paris 1860.
  • with Émile Egger: Les Papyrus grecs du musée du Louvre et de la bibliothèque impériale . Paris 1865.

literature

  • Herni Wallon: Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Charles-Marie-Wladimir Brunet de Presle . In: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 48, 1904, No. 6, pp. 617–666, (online)
  • Émile Egger: Paroles prononcées aux funérailles de M. Brunet de Presle, le 14 septembre 1875 . Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris 1875.
  • Αλέξης Πολίτης (Ed.): Κατάλοιπα Fauriel και Brunet de Presle . 1: Τα "νεοελληνικά" του Claude Fauriel ; 2: Η Συλλογή τραγουδιών του W. Brunet de Presle : αναλυτικός κατάλογος . Κέντρο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών Ε.Ι.Ε., Athens 1980.
  • Christine Beinlich-Seeber: Bibliography Ancient Egypt 1822-1946 , Volume 1, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1998 (Ägyptologische Abhandlungen, Vol. 61), p. 353: References to Brunet's writings including reviews, (online)

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personal data
SURNAME Brunet de Presle, Charles Marie Wladimir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunet, Charles Marie Wladimir (premarital name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical philologist and neo-Greekist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1875
Place of death Paris