Jean-Louis Ferrary (May 5, 1948 – August 9, 2020) was a French historian, a specialist in
ancient Rome
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.
Biography
Born in 1948 in Orléans, Jean-Louis Ferrary entered the
École Normale Supérieure
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* 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
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in 1967 and obtained his
agrégation in Classical Letters in 1970. A member of the
École française de Rome
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from 1973 to 1976, he was then elected a lecturer at the Sorbonne University and continued his career at the
École pratique des hautes études
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, where he has been a lecturer (1983) and director of studies (since 1989). His lecture title was « Histoire des institutions et des idées politiques du monde romain ».
He received his PhD in 1987 after working under the direction of
Pierre Grimal and
Claude Nicolet. His thesis, ''Philhellénisme et impérialisme : aspects idéologiques de la conquête romaine du monde hellénistique'', is a milestone in the study of the relations between Rome and the Greek world.
[See the report by Jean Andreau: "Jean-Louis Ferrary, Philhellénisme et impérialisme : aspects idéologiques de la conquête romaine du monde hellénistique", ''Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations'', 1992, vol. 47, n° 2, pp. 410-41]
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Jean-Louis Ferrary was interested in the history of institutions, law and the laws of ancient Rome, in the history of ideas and the ancient political philosophy, in Greek and Latin epigraphy of Roman times, Latin philology
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and historiography
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.
He was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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in 2005, succeeding Maurice Euzennat
Maurice Euzennat (15 Novembre 1926 – 25 July 2004) was a French historian and archaeologist.
Career
After he passed his agrégation in history and resided at the école française de Rome between 1951 and 1954,
Maurice Euzennat made a par ...
. He was a specialist of Polybius and Cicero
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.
He was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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in 2019. He died in Paris.
Honours
* Knight of the Legion of Honour
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(France
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)
* Knight of the National Order of Merit (France)
* Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
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Main publications
* ''Philhellénisme et impérialisme. Aspects idéologiques de la conquête romaine du monde hellénistique'', Rome, BEFAR, 1988
* ''Onofrio Panvinio et les Antiquités romaines'', Rome, Collection de l’École Française de Rome, 1996
* ''Recherches sur les lois comitiales et sur le droit public romain'', Pavie, Pavia University Press, 2012
* ''Les mémoriaux de délégations de Claros, d’après la documentation conservée dans le Fonds Jeanne et Louis Robert'', Paris, De Boccard, 2015
* ''Rome et le monde grec : Choix d'écrits'', Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2016
* ''Dall'ordine repubblicano ai poteri di Augusto : aspetti della legislazione romana'', Rome, L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2016
* ''Quintus Mucius Scævola : Opra'', Rome, L'Erma di Bretschneider, coll. « Scriptores iuris Romani », 2018
References
External links
Biography on the site of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres
Sa fiche sur le site de l'équipe de recherche Anhima - Histoire et anthropologie des mondes anciens
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Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études
French scholars of Roman history
French epigraphers
20th-century French historians
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Writers from Orléans
1948 births
2020 deaths
Members of the American Philosophical Society