André Aymard (14 May 1900, Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis – 11 August 1964, Oradour-sur-Glane,

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) was a French historian, specialising in

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, particularly the

Hellenistic period In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 3 ...

Biography

Education

André Aymard first passed the

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in history and geography in 1923. The next year he joined the Foundation Thiers. Under the influence of

Maurice Holleaux Maurice Holleaux (15 April 1861 – 21 September 1932) was a 19th–20th-century French historian, archaeologist and epigrapher, a specialist of Ancient Greece. Biography Années de formation Admitted in the École normale supérieure in 18 ...

, he decided, after some hesitation, to focus his research on Ancient Greece. In 1937, after he had taught at

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

, Paris and

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, he submitted his doctoral thesis on ''Les Assemblées de la Confédération achaienne'' (The Assemblies of the

Achaean League The Achaean League (Greek: , ''Koinon ton Akhaion'' "League of Achaeans") was a Hellenistic-era confederation of Greek city states on the northern and central Peloponnese. The league was named after the region of Achaea in the northwestern Pel ...

University Career

He was a professor at the Sorbonne from 1942 to 1964, rising to become head of the faculty of arts. In 1955, he became a professor at the École pratique des hautes études. A friend of Fernand Braudel, director of the 6th section de l'EPHE,Cf. « Nécrologie » he supervised

Pierre Lévêque Pierre Lévêque (; 11 August 1921, in Chambéry – 5 March 2004, in Paris) was a 20th-century French historian of ancient and Hellenistic Greece. Biography Training The son of an engineer, he spent his youth in the port of Bordeaux. Readi ...

's doctoral thesis. He also taught Pierre Vidal-Naquet.

Publications

* ''Les Assemblées de la Confédération achaienne'' (The Assemblies of the Achaean League), principal thesis, 1938, université de Paris, Bordeaux, Féret, 1938 (republished: 1967) * ''Les Premiers rapports de Rome et de la Confédération achaïenne (198-189 av. JC)'' (The First Interactions of Rome and the Achaian League (198-189 BC), supplementary thesis, Bordeaux, Féret, 1938 * ''Le Royaume de Macédoine de la mort d'Alexandre à sa disparition'' (The Kingdom of Macedonia from the Death of Alexander to its dissolution), 1950 * ''Le Monde grec au temps de Philippe II de Macédoine et d'Alexandre le Grand'' (The Greek World in the Time of Philip II of Macedon & Alexander the Great), 1962 * ''Histoire générale des civilisations Tome 1. L'Orient et la Grèce antique'' (General History of Civilisations, Volume I. The East & Ancient Greece) with

Jeannine Auboyer Jeannine Auboyer (1912 - 1990) was a French curator of the Musée Guimet (1965–1980) in Paris, who made several archaeological expeditions to India and Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), offici ...

, 1963

Sources

* Fernand Braudel, �
Nécrologie d'André Aymard
», ''Annales ESC'', 1965, . * Martine François, « Aymard André », on the website of th
CTHS

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aymard, Andre French hellenists 20th-century French historians People from Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis 1900 births 1964 deaths