Jacques Heurgon (25 January 1903 – 27 October 1995) was a French university,
normalian,
Etruscan scholar and
Latin
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ist, professor of Latin language and literature 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, ...
. Married to
Anne Heurgon-Desjardins
Anne Heurgon-Desjardins (born 1899 – 1977, Manche) was a French philanthropist, the founder of the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle.
Biography
The daughter of professor and journalist Paul Desjardins, founder of the at the ...
, founder in 1952, of the
Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle
The Château de Cerisy-la-Salle, located in the French commune of Cerisy-la-Salle (in the Manche ''département'', region of Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Norma ...
, he was the father of , politician and historian, Catherine Peyrou and Edith Heurgon who continued the "Colloques of Cerisy".
A member of the
École française de Rome
The École française de Rome (EFR) is a French research institute for history, archaeology, and the social sciences; overseen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a division of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et ...
(1928–1930), 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 ( epig ...
in 1969.
Biography
Coming from a family of Parisian jewelers, he studied at the
lycée Condorcet
The Lycée Condorcet () is a school founded in 1803 in Paris, France, located at 8, rue du Havre, in the city's 9th arrondissement. It is one of the four oldest high schools in Paris and also one of the most prestigious. Since its inception, var ...
, where he met poet
Jean Tardieu
Jean Tardieu (born in Saint-Germain-de-Joux, Ain, 1 November 1903, died in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, 27 January 1995) was a French artist, musician, poet and dramatic author.
Life and career
He earned a degree in literature and worked for a publ ...
, with whom he would correspond for twenty years. Entered in the
École normale supérieure
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
in 1923, he was received at the first rank of the
agrégation de lettres. In 1926, he married the daughter of his former professor in
khâgne,
Paul Desjardins, who would organize at the
abbaye de Pontigny the "", literary meetings attended, among others, by
André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the Symbolism (arts), symbolist movement, to the advent o ...
,
Bernard Groethuysen Bernard Groethuysen (9 September 1880 – 17 September 1946) was a French writer and philosopher. His works, which transgressed the confines of history and sociology, concern the history of mentalities and representations and the interpretation ...
and
Roger Martin du Gard.
Correspondance de Jean Tardieu et Jacques Heurgon
, fondation La Poste
Publications
* ''Recherches sur l'histoire, la religion et la civilisation de Capoue préromaine des origines à la deuxième guerre punique'' (« Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome », 154), Paris, de Boccard, 1942, 483 p. (State thesis).
* ''Rome et la Méditerranée occidentale jusqu'aux guerres puniques'', Nouvelle Clio, PUF, 3rd edition 1993
''La Vie quotidienne des Étrusques''
Hachette, 1961 and 1989, 361 pages
* ''Le Trésor de Ténès'', 86 pages, 1958, reprint Flammarion, 1992
*
Le ciel a eu le temps de changer
', correspondence 1922-1944 de Jacques Heurgon with Jean Tardieu
Jean Tardieu (born in Saint-Germain-de-Joux, Ain, 1 November 1903, died in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, 27 January 1995) was a French artist, musician, poet and dramatic author.
Life and career
He earned a degree in literature and worked for a publ ...
, 272 pages, 2004,
References
External links
Jacques Heurgon
on Encyclopedia Universalis
Jacques Heurgon
on the site of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
on the site of ''the Independent
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''
''Allocution à l'occasion du décès de M. Jacques Heurgon, académicien ordinaire''
on Persée
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Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
French scholars of Roman history
20th-century French historians
French Latinists
Linguists of Etruscan
Lycée Condorcet alumni
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Writers from Paris
1903 births
1995 deaths
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
Academic staff of the University of Paris