300px, André Laronde in Cyrene, 1973
André Laronde (19 June 1940, in Grenoble – 1 February 2011, in Paris) was a French historian and
archaeologist
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...
. He was a specialist of
Greek settlements in
Cyrenaica
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(now
Libya
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).
Career
Laronde wrote his PhD thesis under the directorship of
François Chamoux. After he taught at the
University of Grenoble
The (, ''Grenoble Alps University'', abbr. UGA) is a Grands établissements, ''grand établissement'' in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 researchers.
Es ...
, André Laronde was a professor at the
Sorbonne in which he presented in 1976 his thesis for the State doctorate « Recherche sur l'histoire de Cyrène », which studied the history of Cyrenaica under the domination of the
Lagides.
He assisted François Chamoux since the creation in 1976 of the French Archaeological Mission in
Tripoli, then became director from 1981. He also conducted the excavations in
Cyrene and
Apollonia, Cyrenaica.
He was elected a member of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres).
History ...
in 2002.
He died of a heart attack on 1 February 2011 at the age of 70.
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Selected works
*1971: ''Nouveau choix d'inscriptions grecques'' (collective).
*1982: ''Mémoire d'Allevard'' (direction)
*1985
''Apollonia de Cyrénaïque et son histoire. Neuf ans de recherches de la mission archéologique française en Libye'', CRAI, 129, n° 1, (p. 93–116)
*1987: ''Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai Historiai. De l'époque républicaine au principat d'Auguste''.
*1988: ''La Cyrénaïque romaine, des origines à la fin des Sévères (96 av. J.-C.- 235 ap. J.-C.)'' (in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II, 10, 1).
*1990: ''Ricerche archeologiche nei porti della Libia, Apollonia e Leptis Magna''.
*1994
''Nouvelles recherches archéologiques dans le port de Lepcis Magna'', CRAI, 138, n° 4, (p. 991–1006)
*1996: ''La civilisation hellénistique''.
*1996: ''La Libye à travers les cartes postales, 1900–1940''.
*1996: ''Apollonia de Cyrénaïque : archéologie et histoire'' (in ''Journal des Savants'').
*1996
''L'exploitation de la chôra cyrénéenne à l'époque classique et hellénistique'', CRAI, 140, n° 2, (p. 503–527)
*2000: ''Précis d'histoire ancienne''
*2000: ''La Libye''.
*2001: ''L'Afrique antique, histoire et monuments'' (in coll. with Jean-Claude Golvin), Paris.
*2001
''Un nouveau portrait de Ptolémée III à Apollonia de Cyrénaïque'', CRAI, 145, n° 2, (p. 737–782)
References
External links
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173916/http://www.academie-des-beaux-arts.fr/actualites/travaux/Comm.%202007/05-2007-Laronde.pdf ''La Libye grecque, romaine et byzantine et ses aspects artistiques'']
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1940 births
Writers from Grenoble
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
French archaeologists
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
2011 deaths