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Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski (Józef Edmund Mélèze-Modrzejewski, 8 March 1930 in
Lublin Lublin is List of cities and towns in Poland, the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin i ...
– 29 January 2017) was a Polish-French historian and professor of ancient history at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.


Career

Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski began his scientific career in
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
as a student of Rafał Taubenschlag. After his arrival in
France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
in 1958,he taught for thirty years the legal and social history of the
Hellenistic world In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roma ...
at the Faculty of Law of Paris and at the Sorbonne. Then following his retirement from the university in 1999, Mélèze-Modrzejewski continued for 5 years to lead a seminar on
papyrology Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...
and history of rights from ancient times at the
École pratique des hautes études The (), abbreviated EPHE, is a French postgraduate top level educational institution, a . EPHE is a constituent college of the Université PSL (together with ENS Ulm, Paris Dauphine or Ecole des Mines). The college is closely linked to É ...
(IVe Section, historical and philological sciences) established in 1972. From 1979 to 2010, Mélèze-Modrzejewski taught the history of post- Exilic
Judaism Judaism () is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic, Monotheism, monotheistic, ethnic religion that comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, and legal traditions of the Jews, Jewish people. Religious Jews regard Judaism as their means of o ...
at the
Université libre de Bruxelles The (French language, French, ; lit. Free University of Brussels; abbreviated ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. It has three campuses: the ''Solbosch'' campus (in the City of Brussels and Ixelles), the ''Plain ...
(Institute of Jewish Studies
Martin Buber Martin Buber (; , ; ; 8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I and Thou, I–Thou relationship and the I� ...
). His works - some 400 books, articles, minutes and chronicles since 1951 - focus on various aspects of the history of law and institutions of antiquity, especially the legal and social history of
Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
and
Roman Egypt Roman Egypt was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 642. The province encompassed most of modern-day Egypt except for the Sinai. It was bordered by the provinces of Crete and Cyrenaica to the west and Judaea, ...
in light of papyrological sources, as well as the history of Judaism at the time of the Second Temple. As the director of the ''Revue historique de droit français et étranger'', he participated in the management of several international journals in the field of the history of law and institutions.


Main publications

* ''Alexandre le Grand'', Varsovie : Éditions Ksiazka i Wiedza, 1958 ; 2e ed. 1961 n Polish and Tel Aviv, Éditions Heder, 1961 n Hebrew * ''Droit impérial et traditions locales dans l’Égypte romaine'', Aldershot : Éditions Variorum, 1990. * ''Statut personnel et liens de famille dans les droits de l’Antiquité'', Aldershot Éditions Variorum, 1993. * ''Les Juifs d’Égypte, de Ramsès II à Hadrien'', Paris : Éditions Errance, 1991, et Armand Colin, 1992 ; 2e ed., revue et complétée, Paris : PUF, 1997 (Quadrige 247) ; ''The Jews of Egypt from Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian'', Philadelphie et Jérusalem, The Jewish Publication Society, et Edimbourg, T&T Clark, 1995 ; 2e ed., revue, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997. * ''Troisième Livre des Maccabées'', Translation of the Greek text of the Septante. Introduction and notes by Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski. (La Bible d’Alexandrie 15.3), Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2008.


See also

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History of the Jews in Egypt The history of the Jews in Egypt goes back to ancient times. Egyptian Jews or Jewish Egyptians refer to the Jewish community in Egypt who mainly consisted of Egyptian Arabic-speaking Rabbanites and Karaites. Though Egypt had its own community ...
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Marguerite Harl Marguerite Harl (3 April 1919 – 30 August 2020) was a French scholar, who worked on the Septuagint, Philo of Alexandria and early patristic writers such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen. She was born in Paris in April 1919 and became a pupil ...


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Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski
on data.bnf.fr {{DEFAULTSORT:Meleze-Modrzejewski, Joseph 1930 births 2017 deaths Writers from Lublin Polish emigrants to France 20th-century French historians French papyrologists French legal historians Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études Academic staff of Pantheon-Sorbonne University Academic staff of the Université libre de Bruxelles University of Warsaw alumni Corresponding Members of the Academy of Athens (modern) Knights of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences