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Lumière University Lyon 2
Lumière University Lyon 2 () is one of the three universities that comprise the current University of Lyon system, having splintered from an older university of the same name, and is primarily based on two campuses in Lyon itself. It has a total of 27,500 students studying for three-to-eight-year degrees in the arts, humanities and social sciences. History At the end of the 18th century, Lyon did not have a university. Education was still linked to religious congregations and influenced by the town's commercial, scientific and industrial requirements. *1835 and 1838 : Creation of the Faculties of Science and Humanities. *1874 and 1875 : Creation of the Faculties of Medicine and Law. *1896 : All these faculties were combined to form the University of Lyon. The same year, the historical buildings on the left bank of the Rhone were finished, initially dedicated to the faculties of medicine and science, then to the faculties of law and humanities. University of Lyon 2 is now establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhône River
The Rhône ( , ; Occitan: ''Ròse''; Arpitan: ''Rôno'') is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lion). At Arles, near its mouth, the river divides into the Great Rhône () and the Little Rhône (). The resulting delta forms the Camargue region. The river's source is the Rhône Glacier, at the east edge of the Swiss canton of Valais. The glacier is part of the Saint-Gotthard Massif, which gives rise to three other major rivers: the Reuss, Rhine and Ticino. The Rhône is, with the Po and the Nile, one of the three Mediterranean rivers with the largest water discharge. Etymology The name ''Rhône'' continues the Latin name (Greek ) in Greco-Roman geography. The Gaulish name of the river was or (from a PIE root *''ret-'' "to run, roll" frequently found in river names). Names in other languages include ; ; ; ; ; and . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultralingua
Ultralingua is a single-click and drag-and-drop multilingual translation dictionary, thesaurus, and language reference utility. The full suite of Ultralingua language tools is available free online without the need for download and installation. As well as its online products, the developer offers premium downloadable language software with extended features and content for Macintosh and Windows computer platforms, smartphones, and other hand held devices. Features In addition to the main user interface of the electronic dictionary, a ‘hotkey’ feature allows the user to click on a word in any program that uses editable text including web browsers and PDF documents, and source code. When a word is clicked, the translation or definition is displayed in a small pop-up window. The hotkey tool does not require previous launching of the software application. The word stemming function allows searches from inflected forms of a word into the root word, such as in French, ('' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Anaut
Marie Anaut (born 24 January 1956) is a professor of clinical psychology and educational sciences at the Lumière University Lyon 2. She is a specialist in psychological resilience. Life and work In 1990, Marie Anaut defended her doctoral thesis entitled ''Child placement behaviors: analysis of intergenerational repetition'' at the University of Lyon 2 under the direction of Robert Martin. She was named a lecturer there and became director of the Institute of Psychology at that university from 1999 to 2004. She was a university vice-president from 2008 to 2012. After completing her post-doctoral habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ... in clinical psychology entitled ''De la vulnérabilité à la résilience'' (''From vulnerability to resilience'') in 2001, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Gonnet
Dominique Gonnet (born in 1950) is a Jesuit professor and a researcher at Institut des sources chrétiennes. He is a founding member of the Société d'Études Syriaques and has co-edited, in its collection of studies, ''Les Pères grecs dans la tradition syriaque''. Biography Gonnet was born in 1950 in Belgium. Education In 1970, Gonnet graduated in Classics at the University of Lille. In 1971, Gonnet earned a CAPES in Classical Letters, and then, from 1976, a master's degree in linguistics. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1972-1973) and He entered the Society of Jesus in 1973. From 1993, Gonnet holds a ThD at Centre Sèvres, with his thesis ''La liberté religieuse à Vatican II : la contribution de John Courtney Murray, SJ''. Teaching Since 1992 he has worked at the Institut des Sources Chrétiennes in Lyon as a research engineer associated with the Unité Mixte de Recherche HiSoMA (Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques, CNRS-Université Lyon 2). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Le Vot
Gérard Le Vot (born 5 January 1948 on the site of the BnF.) is a French , a specialist in the medieval period, and professor at the . Also a ist and singer, he was awarded with the following prizes for his recordings of songs by |
Colette Grinevald
Colette Grinevald (born 1947) is a French linguist. She is professor emeritus at the University of Lyon. Career Grinevald earned her PhD from Harvard University in 1975 and joined the newly created Linguistics department at the University of Oregon in 1977. Grinevald has written grammars of Jakaltek Popti' and Rama and advocates for endangered languages. She contributed to UNESCO's language vitality criteria developed in 2003. Grinevald serves on Sorosoro's scientific board. Life Grinevald grew up in Algiers, in what was then French Algeria French Algeria ( until 1839, then afterwards; unofficially ; ), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of History of Algeria, Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France. French rule lasted until .... She had recurrent tuberculosis as a young child. She married William Craig, then a medical student, while studying in Boston. The couple later divorced. Grinevald's children Matthias Craig a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Kelkel
Manfred Kelkel (15 January 1929 – 18 April 1999) was a 20th-century French musicologist and composer of contemporary music. A pupil of Darius Milhaud at the Conservatoire de Paris, he got interested in the music of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, whose latest works (from '' Prometheus: The Poem of Fire to Mysterium'') influenced his own compositions. His work on Scriabin and a certain esoteric aesthetic of music are authoritative. Studies and publications Kelkel was born in in Saarland, then under French occupation As a student of Darius Milhaud at the Conservatoire de Paris, Kelkel "always felt a sincere admiration and almost filial recognition for his former teacher, even if, aesthetically speaking, he followed a divergent path.". From 1969 onwards, the composer resumed his university studies, obtaining a doctoral degree and a State doctorate of music and musicology, "with works that have since become authoritative in their fields", from his study ''À la recherche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Faurisson
Robert Faurisson (; born Robert Faurisson Aitken; 25 January 1929 – 21 October 2018) was a British-born French academic who became best known for Holocaust denial. Faurisson generated much controversy with several articles published in the '' Journal of Historical Review'' and elsewhere, and by letters to French newspapers, especially ''Le Monde'', which contradicted the history of the Holocaust by denying the existence of gas chambers in Nazi death camps, the systematic killing of European Jews using gas during the Second World War, and the authenticity of '' The Diary of Anne Frank''. After the passing of the Gayssot Act against Holocaust denial in 1990, Faurisson was prosecuted and fined, and in 1991 he was dismissed from his academic post. Early life and education Faurisson is believed to be one of seven children born in Shepperton, Middlesex, England to a French father and a Scottish mother. He studied French, Latin and Greek literature (''Lettres classiques''), and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Babut
Daniel Babut (12 February 1929 – 13 February 2009) was a French Hellenist, specialising in Greek philosophy, especially the ''Moralia'' of Plutarch. He was employed by the Lumière University Lyon 2 from 1963 to 1992. He was born in Lille. Work Daniel Babut dedicated his doctoral thesis, completed in 1969, to Plutarch and his reception of Stoicism. He showed that Plutarch was opposed, consistently and sometimes violently, to Stoic philosophy and made the Stoics his "chief adversaries." ». The same year he published the text of Plutarch's ''On Moral Virtue'', one of the texts in which he found particularly marked polemic against the stoics, in the Collection Budé. Interested in the question of Greek philosophers relationship with the divine, he published a synthesis ''La Religion des philosophes grecs de Thalès aux stoïcismes'' (The Religion of the Greek Philosophers from Thales to the Stoics) in 1974. His studies were particularly focussed on the place of Anaximander and X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Arkoun
Mohammed Arkoun (; 1 February 1928 – 14 September 2010) was an Algerian scholar and thinker. He was considered to have been one of the most influential secular scholars in Islamic studies contributing to contemporary intellectual Islamic reform. In a career of more than 30 years, he had been a critic of the tensions embedded in his field of study, advocating Islamic modernism, secularism, and humanism. During his academic career, he wrote his numerous books mostly in French, and occasionally in English and Arabic. Academic career Arkoun was born in 1928 in Taourirt Mimoun, a Berber village in Great Kabylia in northern Algeria. His family was traditional, religious and relatively poor. His father was a shopkeeper in Ain al-Arba'a, a wealthy French settlement in east of Oran. He attended primary school in his Berber-speaking home village until he was nine-years-old. As the eldest son, he was expected to learn his father's trade, while continuing to attend primary school. He st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Matheron
Alexandre Matheron (1926 – 7 January 2020) was a French philosopher specializing in Baruch Spinoza and modern politics. His 1969 work ''Individu et communauté chez Spinoza'' is "widely regarded as one of the landmarks of Spinoza scholarship." Biography Alexandre was the brother of mathematician Georges Matheron. He obtained a bachelor's degree in politics in 1949 and an agrégation in philosophy in 1956. The following year, he began teaching at the University of Algiers. He also left the French Communist Party, where he was very active. While in Algeria, Matheron decided to write his doctoral thesis on Spinoza. In 1963, he returned to Paris and enrolled at the French National Centre for Scientific Research to complete his doctoral degree under the direction of Martial Gueroult. His degree was completed in 1968. His thesis, titled ''Individu et communauté chez Spinoza'' was officially published in 1969. Matheron published another work in 1971, titled ''Le Christ et le salut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Brunot
Ferdinand-Eugène-Jean-Baptiste Brunot (6 November 1860 – 7 January 1938) was a French linguist and philologist, editor of the ground-breaking ''Histoire de la langue française des origines à 1900'' ("History of the French Language from its Origins to 1900"). Brunot was born in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. He found his first faculty position and published his first book from the ''Faculté des lettres de Lyon'', now the Lumière University Lyon 2. In October 1891 he became a lecturer at the Sorbonne at the age of 31. Here he began his long collaboration with fellow linguist Louis Petit de Julleville and produced the first volume of his monumental History, dealing with medieval French. It would eventually stretch to nine volumes published in his lifetime, and 13 volumes altogether. He also published a standard French grammar, and several papers advocating simplified French spelling. Brunot served as mayor of the 14th arrondissement of Paris in the difficult war years of 1914 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
