Germaine Rouillard (4 August 1888 – 1 September 1946) was a 20th-century French

byzantinist Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music, science, economy, coinage and politics of the Eastern Roman Empire. T ...

specializing in

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

Biography

The daughter of a wealthy and educated pharmacist of Argenton-sur-Creuse where she spent her childhood, she was well educated in

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and Paris then was a

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at the

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. In 1923 she obtained her State doctorate in literature at the Faculté of Paris. She was never elected a female professor at the Sorbonne but became the first woman to hold a chair, that of Byzantine philology at the

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where she would make all her academic career. She was specialized in

papyrology Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

and Byzantine philology.

Selected works

*1923: ''L'administration civile de l’Égypte byzantine'', preface by

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, 268 p., P. Gauthier, Paris, doctorate thesis *1923: ''Les papyrus grecs de Vienne, inventaire des documents publiés'', H. Champion, Paris, complementary thesis *1937: ''Actes de Lavru, édition diplomatique et critique'' by Germaine Rouillard and

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, in ''Archives de l'Athos'', vol. I, (p. 897–1178), L. Lethielleux, Paris. *1932: ''Les taxes maritimes et commerciales d'après les actes de Patnos et de Lavru'', in ''Mélanges Charles Diehl'', tome I, (p. 277–289) *1953: ''La vie rurale dans l'Empire byzantin'', 207 p., Adrien Maisonneuve, Paris, (posthumous).

Bibliography

*1929: R. Draguet, "Compte-rendu de ''L'administration civile de l'Egypte byzantine''", in ''Revue belge de philosophie et d'histoire'', volume VIII, (p. 246–248). *1932: R. Guillaud, "Compte-rendu de ''Les taxes maritimes et commerciales d'après les actes de Patnos et de Lavru''", in ''Annales d'histoire économique et sociale'', (p. 429–430), volume IV, n° 6. *1947: Claire Préaux, "Germaine Rouillard", ''Chronique d'Égypte 22'', n° 43, (p. 174–176). *1954: R. Jannin, "Compte-rendu de ''La vie rurale dans l'empire byzantin''", in ''Revue des études byzantines'', volume XII, n° 12, (p. 221–222) *2010: "Germaine Rouillard", in ''Argentonnais connus et méconnus'', (p. 56), Cercle d'histoire d'Argenton-sur-Creuse, Argenton.

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''L’administration civile de l'Égypte byzantine''
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Germaine Rouilllars
on IdRef {{DEFAULTSORT:Rouillard, Germaine French Byzantinists French papyrologists Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études 1888 births People from Creuse 1946 deaths