André Mirambel (1 October 1900 – 4 June 1970) was a 20th-century French
Hellenist
Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...
.
Agrégé of grammar, graduated from the
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
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, André Mirambel was first a professor at the (1925–1928) before he succeeded
Jean Psichari from 1929 as professor of
modern Greek
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at the École des langues orientales, of which he was administrator from 1958 to 1969 after he was
Henri Massé's assistant since 1954. He was a member of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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History ...
since 1965.
In 1956, André Mirambel won the Prix Langlois awarded by the
Académie Française
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for ''Tasso Tassoulo et autres nouvelles'', by Thrasso Castonakis
Bibliography
*1948: ''Introduction au grec moderne'' G. P. Maisonneuve
*1949: ''Grammaire du grec moderne'', Klincksieck,
*1953: ''La littérature grecque moderne'', Presses universitaires de France, coll.
Que sais-je ?
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, N°. 560.
*1959: ''La langue grecque moderne : description et analyse'', Klincksieck
*1960: ''Petit dictionnaire français-grec moderne et grec moderne-français'' Maisonneuve et Larose.
*1962: ''La France devant l'hellénisme''
*1963: ''Georges Séféris. Prix Nobel 1963''
External links
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Éloge funèbre de M. André Mirambelon Persée
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1900 births
1970 deaths
French hellenists
Translators to French
Greek–French translators
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
20th-century French translators