Henri Metzger (; 19 August 1912 – 2 October 2007) was a French archaeologist and
Hellenist, a member of the
Institut de France. He specialized in
pottery of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), it has exe ...
, particularly from Athens, and archaeology in Anatolia, specifically in
Lycia.
[Edmond Lévy, "Allocution de M. Edmond Lévy, président de l’Association", ''Revue des Études Grecques'', vol. 121, fascicule 2, July–December 2008. (p. 20–21)]
Biography
Henri Metzger comes from a family of Alsatian and Protestant origin. After studying at the
École Normale Supérieure and passing an
agrégation de lettres classiques
In France, the ''agrégation'' () is a competitive examination for civil service in the French public education system. Candidates for the examination, or ''agrégatifs'', become ''agrégés'' once they are admitted to the position of ''professe ...
, he became a member of the
French School at Athens (1938–1939 interrupted by a military assignment in Syria (1940–1945) then at the French Institute of Archaeology in Istanbul (1945-1947).
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A Doctor in 1950, he completed most of his career at the University of Lyon (Chair of History of ancient art) (from 1947) and as an associate professor of classical archeology at the University of Geneva (1961–1968).][
He was director of the French archaeological mission at Xanthos and Letoon, in Lycia (Turkey), from 1962 to 1978.][
He headed the French Institute of Archaeology in Istanbul from 1975 to 1980 and was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1989 at the seat of Paul Imbs.][
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Some works
*1951: ''Les représentations dans la céramique attique du Ie'', doctorate thesis
*1952: ''Catalogue des monuments votifs du musée d'Adalia'', complementary thesis
*1964: ''La céramique grecque'', PUF, coll. « Que sais-je ? », n°588, 112 p.
*1965: ''Recherche sur l'imagerie athénienne''
*1972: ''Céramiques archaïques et classiques de l'acropole lycienne''
References
External links
METZGER Henri
notice on the site of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
notice on CAIRN
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French archaeologists
French hellenists
École Normale Supérieure alumni
University of Geneva faculty
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
1912 births
People from La Tronche
2007 deaths
20th-century archaeologists