Louis Robert (

Laurière Laurière (; oc, L'Auriera) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. Inhabitants are known as ''Lauriérois'' in French. See also *Communes of the Haute-Vienne department The follo ...

, 15 February 1904 -

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, 31 May 1985) was a professor of

Greek history The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied throu ...

and

Epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the w ...

at the

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...

, and author of many volumes and articles on Greek epigraphy (of all periods, from the archaic period to Late Antiquity), numismatics, and the historical geography of Greek lands. Robert studied at 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, S ...

from 1924 to 1927, was a member of the

École française d'Athènes The French School at Athens (french: École française d’Athènes, EfA; el, Γαλλική Σχολή Αθηνών ''Gallikí Scholí Athinón'') is one of the seventeen foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. Histor ...

from 1927 to 1932, and taught at the

École pratique des hautes études The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college o ...

(IVth section) in Paris from 1932. He was made full professor at the

in 1939, where he remained until his retirement in 1974. He continued to publish on Greek epigraphy with his wife, Jeanne Robert, as co-author, as he had done since their marriage and until his death in 1985.

Selected bibliography

* ''Villes d' Asie Mineure'', 1935 (second edition, with an ample postface, 1962) * ''Collection Froehner, Inscriptions grecques'', 1936. * ''Études Anatoliennes, Sur des inscriptions de l'Asie Mineure'', 1937. * ''Études épigraphiques et philologiques'', 1938. * ''Les gladiateurs dans l'Orient grec'', 1940. * ''Hellenica, Recueil d'épigraphie de numismatique et d'antiquités grecques'' (13 volumes), 1940–1965. * ''Le sanctuaire du dieu

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près de

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'', 1945. * ''Études de numismatique grecque'', 1951. * ''La Carie, II, Le plateau de Tabai'', 1954 * ''Lettres d'un évêque de Synnada'', 1962. * ''Noms indigènes dans l'Asie Mineure gréco romaine'', 1963. * ''La déesse de Hiérapolis Castabala'', 1964. * ''Stèles funéraires de Byzance gréco-romaine'', 1964. * ''Nouvelles inscriptions de

Sardes Sardis () or Sardes (; Lydian: 𐤳𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣 ''Sfard''; el, Σάρδεις ''Sardeis''; peo, Sparda; hbo, ספרד ''Sfarad'') was an ancient city at the location of modern ''Sart'' (Sartmahmut before 19 October 2005), near Salihli, ...

'', 1964. * ''Documents de l'Asie Mineure méridionale'', 1966. * ''Monnaies antiques en

Troad The Troad ( or ; el, Τρωάδα, ''Troáda'') or Troas (; grc, Τρῳάς, ''Trōiás'' or , ''Trōïás'') is a historical region in northwestern Anatolia. It corresponds with the Biga Peninsula ( Turkish: ''Biga Yarımadası'') in the � ...

e'', 1966 * ''Monnaies grecques'', 1967. * ''Épigrammes satiriques de

Lucillius Lucillius ( grc-gre, Λουκίλλιος; fl. 60s CE) was the author of one hundred twenty three epigrams in Greek preserved in the ''Greek Anthology.'' He lived under the emperor Nero. Many of his poems describe stereotyped people, such as doctor ...

'', 1967. * ''Inscriptions de Laodicée du Lycos'', 1969. * ''À travers l'Asie Mineure, Poètes et prosateurs, monnaies grecques, voyageurs et géographie'', 1980. * ''Fouilles d' Amyzon en Carie'', 1983.

References

* G. W. Bowersock, 'Louis Robert, 1904–1985', ''American Journal of Archaeology'', 90 (1986), pp. 171–172. *G. W. Bowersock, 'Louis Robert :La gloire et la joie d’une vie consacrée à l’Antiquité grecque', ''Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres'', 152 (2008), pp. 1557–1573.

External links

Professeurs Disparus, Louis Robert

Hommage by Professor Pierre Hadot

Hommage by Professor Pierre Hadot (In Modern Greek)
People from Haute-Vienne 1904 births 1985 deaths Historians of antiquity Hellenic epigraphers French epigraphers 20th-century French historians Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Collège de France faculty École Normale Supérieure alumni Members of the French School at Athens Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy {{France-historian-stub