300px, André Laronde in Cyrene, 1973
André Laronde (19 June 1940, in Grenoble – 1 February 2011, in Paris) was a French historian and
archaeologist. He was a specialist of
Greek settlements in
Cyrenaica
Cyrenaica ( ) or Kyrenaika ( ar, برقة, Barqah, grc-koi, Κυρηναϊκή παρχίαKurēnaïkḗ parkhíā}, after the city of Cyrene), is the eastern region of Libya. Cyrenaica includes all of the eastern part of Libya between ...
(now
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...
).
Career
Laronde wrote his PhD thesis under the directorship of
François Chamoux. After he taught at the
University of Grenoble
The Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, French: meaning "''Grenoble Alps University''") is a public research university in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 resea ...
, André Laronde was a professor at the
Sorbonne
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* Sorbonne (building), historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities.
*the University of Paris (c. 1150 – 1970)
*one of its components or linked institution, ...
in which he presented in 1976 his thesis for the State doctorate « Recherche sur l'histoire de Cyrène », which studied the history of Cyrenaica under the domination of the
Lagides.
He assisted François Chamoux since the creation in 1976 of the French Archaeological Mission in
Tripoli, then became director from 1981. He also conducted the excavations in
Cyrene and
Apollonia, Cyrenaica
Apollonia ( gr, Ἀπολλωνία) in Cyrenaica (modern Libya) was founded by Greek colonists and became a significant commercial centre in the southern Mediterranean. It served as the harbour of Cyrene, to the southwest.
Apollonia becam ...
.
He was elected a member of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigr ...
in 2002.
He died of a heart attack on 1 February 2011 at the age of 70.
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Selected works
*1971: ''Nouveau choix d'inscriptions grecques'' (collective).
*1982: ''Mémoire d'Allevard'' (direction)
*1985
''Apollonia de Cyrénaïque et son histoire. Neuf ans de recherches de la mission archéologique française en Libye'', CRAI, 129, n° 1, (p. 93–116)
*1987: ''Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai Historiai. De l'époque républicaine au principat d'Auguste''.
*1988: ''La Cyrénaïque romaine, des origines à la fin des Sévères (96 av. J.-C.- 235 ap. J.-C.)'' (in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt
, commonly referred to by its German acronym, ''ANRW'', or in English as ''Rise and Decline of the Roman World'', is an extensive collection of books dealing with the history and culture of ancient Rome. Akin to a journal and published in various ...
II, 10, 1).
*1990: ''Ricerche archeologiche nei porti della Libia, Apollonia e Leptis Magna''.
*1994
''Nouvelles recherches archéologiques dans le port de Lepcis Magna'', CRAI, 138, n° 4, (p. 991–1006)
*1996: ''La civilisation hellénistique''.
*1996: ''La Libye à travers les cartes postales, 1900–1940''.
*1996: ''Apollonia de Cyrénaïque : archéologie et histoire'' (in ''Journal des Savants'').
*1996
''L'exploitation de la chôra cyrénéenne à l'époque classique et hellénistique'', CRAI, 140, n° 2, (p. 503–527)
*2000: ''Précis d'histoire ancienne''
*2000: ''La Libye''.
*2001: ''L'Afrique antique, histoire et monuments'' (in coll. with Jean-Claude Golvin
Jean-Claude Golvin (born 18 December 1942) is a French archaeologist and architect. He specializes in the history of Roman amphitheatres and has published hundreds of reconstruction drawings of ancient monuments. Golvin is a researcher with the C ...
), Paris.
*2001
''Un nouveau portrait de Ptolémée III à Apollonia de Cyrénaïque'', CRAI, 145, n° 2, (p. 737–782)
References
External links
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173916/http://www.academie-des-beaux-arts.fr/actualites/travaux/Comm.%202007/05-2007-Laronde.pdf ''La Libye grecque, romaine et byzantine et ses aspects artistiques'']
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1940 births
Writers from Grenoble
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
French archaeologists
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
2011 deaths
