Robert Flacelière (; 29 May 1904,
Paris
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– 23 May 1982,
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) was a scholar of Classical Greek. He was educated at the
Collège Sainte-Barbe, the
Lycée Henri IV
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and the
École Normale Supérieure
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From 1925 to 1930, he was a member of the
French School in Athens and from 1932-1948 a Professor of the Faculty of Letters at
University of Lyon.
He was then appointed to the Chair of
Greek Language and Literature at the
University of Paris
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, a post he held until 1963 when he was appointed Director of the École Normale Supérieure.
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Jean Daniélou
Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou (; 14 May 1905 – 20 May 1974) was a French Jesuit and cardinal, an internationally well known patrologist, theologian and historian and a member of the Académie Française.
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École Normale Supérieure alumni
French classical scholars
French hellenists
French philologists
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Lycée Henri-IV alumni
Scientists from Paris
1904 births
1982 deaths
20th-century French historians
20th-century philologists
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