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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 Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (; ), abbreviated as INALCO, is a French Grand Etablissement with a specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. Its coverage spans languages of Central Europ ...
, André Mirambel was first a professor at the (1925–1928) before he succeeded Jean Psichari from 1929 as professor of
modern Greek Modern Greek (, or , ), generally referred to by speakers simply as Greek (, ), refers collectively to the dialects of the Greek language spoken in the modern era, including the official standardized form of the language sometimes referred to ...
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 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 ...
since 1965. In 1956, André Mirambel won the Prix Langlois awarded by the
Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...
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 ? "Que sais-je?" (QSJ) (; Literally: "What do I know?", ) is an editorial collection published by the Presses universitaires de France (PUF). The aim of the series is to provide the lay reader with an accessible introduction to a field of study wr ...
, 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''


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