Yves Béquignon

Yves Béquignon (full name Yves Pierre Émile Béquignon , born April 6, 1899 in Lille , † April 1, 1990 in Strasbourg ) was a French classical archaeologist and epigraphist .

Life

Yves Béquignon was a son of the teacher Justin Sosthène Béquignon (1870–?) And Marie Marguerite Eugénie Thomas (1872–?). He grew up with four younger siblings. His sister was the lawyer Charlotte Béquignon-Lagarde (1900-1993).

He studied Classical Studies in Lille and from November 1921 in Strasbourg . After graduating, he was a scholarship holder of the École française d'Athènes from November 1923 to 1929 and stayed in Greece for several years. He took part in excavations and explorations in Thessaly and prepared a study of the topography of the Sperchiostal , with which he received his doctorate in 1937 as Docteur des lettres . In 1930/31, Béquignon was General Secretary of the École française d'Athènes.

In 1932 Béquignon went to Algiers and taught at a high school there. In 1933 he moved to the University of Caen and taught there as a lecturer ( maître de conférences ), after his doctorate (1937) until 1946 as a professor of ancient history. From 1942 to 1946 he was assessor of the dean of the Faculté des Lettres. From 1935 to 1965 he was also secretary in charge of the editing of the journal Revue archéologique .

In November 1947, Béquignon moved to the University of Strasbourg as a professor of Greek history. There he later served as director of the Institute for Ancient History and from 1949 to 1960 as assessor of the dean of the Faculté des Lettres. In 1972 he retired.

Until his appointment to Strasbourg, Béquignon's research focused on the archeology, topography and epigraphy of Greece. In addition to reports and studies on sites in Thessaly, he published a monograph on the landscapes of the Iliad in 1945 . In Strasbourg, Béquignon also dealt with the archaeological evidence of the Celts and with the estate of the Alsatian antiquarian Johann Gottfried Schweighäuser .

Fonts (selection)

• Grèce (Les Guides Bleus) Paris 1932.
• La Vallée du Spercheios des origines au IV ^e siècle, études d'archéologie et de topographie . Paris 1937.
• Recherches archéologiques à Phères de Thessalie . Paris 1937.
• with Joseph Bidez and Pierre Demargne : Etudes d'archéologie grecque . Ghent 1938.
• Paysages et images de l'Iliade . Paris 1945 (also under the titles Homère. L'Iliade and L'Iliade illustrée ).
• Un manuscrit inédit de Jean Geoffroi Schweighaeuser . in: Bulletin de la Faculté des Lettres de Strasbourg . Volume 30 (1951), pp. 117-128; 139-154
• Études sur les survivances celtiques en Alsace . Strasbourg 1959.
• Survivances celtiques en Alsace, à propos de deux chapiteaux historiés d'époque novels . In: Revue des sciences religieuses . Year 1956, pp. 47–52.

literature

• Jacques Jouanna: Yves Béquignon (necrology) . In: Revue des Études Grecques . 103: XXVII (1990)
• Jean-Claude Decourt: Yves Béquignon (1899–1990). Un archéologue français en Thessalie . In: To έργo των εφoρειών αρχαιoτήτων και νεωτέρων μνημείων τoυ ΥΠ.ΠO. στη Θεσσαλία και στην ευρύτερη περιoχή της, 1990-1998. 1η Eπιστημoνική Συνάντηση Bóλoς, Mάιoς 1998 . Volos 2000, pp. 161-171.

Web links

• Biography in NetBDA (French) of Georges Foessel (1983) with additions by Philippe Legin (October 2016)
• Letters from Yves Béquignon to Paul Pedrizet (French)