Jean Bollack (15 March 1923 – 4 December 2012) was a French philosopher,

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

and literary critic.

Biography

He first studied classical

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

at the

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, among others with and Albert Béguin, and from 1945 at the

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where he began working under the direction of

Hellenist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

Pierre Chantraine Pierre Louis Chantraine (; 15 September 1899 – 30 June 1974) was a French linguist. He was born in Lille and died in Paris. A student of, among others, Antoine Meillet, Joseph Vendryes and Paul Mazon, Chantraine became one of the most renown ...

.. He then established the "Centre de recherche philologique" in Lille, which he ran for some years and to which his friend Heinz Wismann participated. According to Barbara Cassin, his philological work is remarkable for its "extraordinary textual vigilance".Barbara Cassin on

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accessdate 16 September 2016. In addition to his work as a Hellenist with his wife and collaborator Mayotte Bollack, he has published studies on the poetry of Paul Celan. He is considered one of the most penetrating commentators on Celan.

Publications

* ''Empédocle 1 : « Introduction à l'ancienne physique »'', Paris, Éditions de Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1965, (rééd. des 3 volumes) coll. ''Tel''

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. * ''Empédocle 2 : « Les Origines »'', edition and translation of fragments and testimonies, Paris, Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1969. ''Tel'' Gallimard. * ''Empédocle 3 : « Les Origines: commentaire »'', commentary, Paris, Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1969. ''Tel'' Gallimard. * ''Héraclite ou la séparation'', in collaboration with Heinz Wismann, Paris, Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1972. eference book* ''La Pensée du plaisir''. ''Epicure : textes moraux, commentaire'', Paris, Minuit, 1975. * ''La Grèce de personne : les mots sous le mythe'', Paris,

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, coll. "L'ordre philosophique", 1997. *

Euripides Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars a ...

, ''Iphigénie à Aulis'', transl. in coll. with Mayotte Bollack, Paris, Minuit, 1990. * ''Pierre de cœur'', (unpublished poem by Paul Celan), Pierre Fanlac Éditeur, 1991. * Euripides, ''Andromaque'', transl. in coll. with Mayotte Bollack, Paris, Minuit, 1994. * ''La naissance d’Œdipe'', (translation and comment of Œdipus Rex), Gallimard, 1995. * Euripides, ''Hélène'', transl. in coll. with Mayotte Bollack, Paris, Minuit, 1997. *

Sophocles Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or c ...

, ''Antigone'', trans. in coll. with Mayotte Bollack, Paris, Minuit, 1999. * ''Sens contre sens. Comment lit-on?'' Interview with Patrick Llored. La Passe du vent, 2000. * ''Poésie contre poésie (Celan et la littérature)'', PUF, "Perspectives germaniques", 2001. * ''Piedra de corazón. Un poema póstumo de Paul Celan''. With the help of Arnau Pons. Madrid, Arena Libros, 2002. * ''L'écrit. Une poétique dans l'œuvre de Celan'', PUF, "Perspectives germaniques", 2003. * Euripides, ''Les Bacchantes'', transl. in coll. with Mayotte Bollack, Paris, Minuit, 2004. * ''Poesía contra poesía. Celan y la literatura''. With the help of Arnau Pons. Madrid. Trotta, 2005. * * * * *

Bibliography

* Christoph König, Denis Thouard (éd.), ''La philologie au présent : pour Jean Bollack'', Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2010 (collection Cahiers de philologie) * Christoph König, Heinz Wismann (éd.), "La lecture insistante. Autour de Jean Bollack", Paris, Albin Michel, 2011 (Colloque de Cerisy).

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Site officiel

In memoriam Jean Bollack on the blog Insula
* Interview on

in the program ''Du jour au lendemain'' by

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(30 January 1998)

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