Joseph Hellegouarc'h (22 May 1920 – 1 May 2004) was a French scholar (1963), professor of Latin language and literature at Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III, then

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...

. He left an impressive scientific work, oriented towards the study of political vocabulary, metric, stylistic studies and literature.

Publications

He completed the publication and translation of Latin authors in the series "Universités de France" by éditions des Belles Lettres: *

Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. The surviving portions of his two major works—the ...

, ''Histoires'', in collaboration with Henri Le Bonniec and

Pierre Wuilleumier Pierre Wuilleumier (1 January 1904 – 20 November 1979) was a 20th-century French scholar, normalian, professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne and archaeologist. Biography Pierre Wuilleumier held the chair of National Antiqu ...

* Tacitus, ''Annales'', in collaboration with Henri Le Bonniec and Pierre Wuilleumier * Eutropius, ''Abrégé d'histoire romaine'' *

Velleius Paterculus Marcus Velleius Paterculus (; c. 19 BC – c. AD 31) was a Roman historian, soldier and senator. His Roman history, written in a highly rhetorical style, covered the period from the end of the Trojan War to AD 30, but is most useful for the per ...

, ''Histoire romaine'' *

Sallust Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (; 86 – ), was a Roman historian and politician from an Italian plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became during the 50s BC a partisan ...

, ''La Conjuration de Catilina, La Guerre de Jugurtha Fragments des Histoires'' * Horace, ''Odes et ''

External links

''Le monosyllabe dans l'hexamètre latin. Essai de métrique verbale'' (compte rendu)
on Persée
''Rhétorique et poésie dans la Pharsale de Lucain'' (article)
on Persée {{DEFAULTSORT:Hellegouarc'h, Joseph French Latinists Latin–French translators 1920 births 2004 deaths 20th-century translators