Georges Charles Le Rider (27 January 1928 – 3 July 2014) was a French

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and administrator, a specialist in Greek

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, who headed the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. He had a filial relationship with

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who became and remained his mentor.

Career

After he was admitted to the

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in 1948, Le Rider obtained his agrégation de lettres classiques in 1952. A member of the

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from 1952 to 1955, he joined the French Institute of Archeology of the Near East, where he stayed until 1958. While he was living in Athens, his son was born; Jacques was to become a renowned

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. On his return from

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, Georges entered the Bibliothèque nationale de France as curator of the

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, a department he then headed from 1961. In 1975 he left the Cabinet des Médailles to become the deputy head of the Bibliothèque nationale, a position he held until his appointment in 1981 at the head of the in Istanbul. Concurrent with his work with these several institutions, he pursued a teaching career, first at the

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, then at the

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and at the university Paris-IV, before being elected professor of economic and monetary history of the Hellenistic East at the

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in 1993. He retired in 1998. He was elected a member of the

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in 1989. In 1996, he was elected to the

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. Le Rider was made a knight of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur in 1977 and promoted to the level of ''officier'' (officer) on 30 January 2008. He was also an ''officer'' of the

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and ''

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'' (Commander) of the

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Works

*1965: ''Suse sous les Séleucides et les Parthes, les trouvailles monétaires et l’histoire de la ville'', (thesis) *1966
''Monnaies crétoises du Ve au Ier siècle av. J.-C.''
(complementary thesis) *1975: ''Code pour l’analyse des monnaies'' *1977: ''Le monnayage d’argent et d’or de Philippe II frappé en Macédoine de 359 à 294'' *1983: ''Catalogue de la collection Delepierre entrée au Cabinet des médailles en 1966'', (in collaboration with H. Nicolet) *1988: ''Le Trésor de Meydancikkale (Cilicie-Trachée 1980)'', (in collaboration with A. Davesne) *1996: ''Monnayages et finances de Philippe II, un état de la question'', *1997: ''Prix du blé et numéraire dans l’Égypte lagide de 305 à 173'', (in collaboration with H. Cadell) *1998: ''Séleucie du Tigre, les monnaies séleucides et parthes'' *1999: ''Antioche de Syrie sous les Séleucides : corpus des monnaies d’or et d’argent. I, De Séleucos à Antiochos V, c. 300-161'' *2001
''La naissance de la monnaie : pratiques monétaires de l'Orient ancien''
Paris,

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, series "Histoires". *2003: ''Alexandre Le Grand : monnaie, finances et politique'' *2006: ''Les Séleucides et les Ptolémées : l'héritage monétaire et financier d'Alexandre le Grand'', (in collaboration with François de Callataÿ).

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