François de Callataÿ (born 1961) is a Belgian ancient historian, professor at the

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(Paris/Sorbonne), who has written significant studies of coinage and finance in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Life and career

Callataÿ was born in

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, Belgium, on 13 June 1961. He was educated at the , and went on to study Archaeology and Art History at the Université catholique de Louvain. He went on to specialise in the study of ancient Greek money, presenting a doctoral dissertation in 1988. In 1991 he was appointed to the medals collection of the Royal Library of Belgium, becoming director of the collection in 1994. In 2006 he was appointed over-all head of the patrimonial collection of the Royal Library (including manuscripts rare books, prints, maps, coins, medals and music). In 1995 and 2003 he was visiting professor of the Summer Seminar of the

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. Since 1998 he has lectured once a week at the

(Paris/Sorbonne). He is a member of the

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Awards

* Bordin Prize of the French Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres (1998)Prix Bordin
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Accessed 7 October 2016.

Works

* ''L'Histoire des Guerres Mithridatiques vue par les monnaies'' (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1997) on the

Mithridatic Wars The Mithridatic Wars were three conflicts fought by Rome against the Kingdom of Pontus and its allies between 88 BC and 63 BC. They are named after Mithridates VI, the King of Pontus who initiated the hostilities after annexing the Roman provi ...

of the 1st century BC. * with G. Le Rider, ''Les Séleucides et les Ptolémées: L’héritage monétaire et financier d’Alexandre le Grand'' (Paris, 2006) * ''Cléopâtre, usages et mésusages de son image'' (Brussels, 2015) on Cleopatra

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Callatay, Francois 1961 births Living people Belgian numismatists Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium