Jacques Heurgon
Jacques Heurgon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 January 1903 Paris |
| Died | 24 October 1995 (aged 92) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouse | Anne Heurgon-Desjardins |
Jacques Heurgon (25 January 1903 – 27 October 1995) was a French university, normalian, Etruscan scholar and Latinist, professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne. Married to Anne Heurgon-Desjardins, founder in 1952, of the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle, he was the father of Marc Heurgon, politician and historian, Catherine Peyrou and Edith Heurgon who continued the "Colloques of Cerisy".
A member of the École française de Rome (1928–1930), he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1969.
Biography
[edit]Coming from a family of Parisian jewelers, he studied at the lycée Condorcet, where he met poet Jean Tardieu, with whom he would correspond for twenty years. Entered in the École normale supérieure in 1923, he was received at the first rank of the agrégation de lettres. In 1926, he married the daughter of his former professor in khâgne, Paul Desjardins, who would organize at the abbaye de Pontigny the "Décades de Pontigny", literary meetings attended, among others, by André Gide, Bernard Groethuysen and Roger Martin du Gard.[1]
Publications
[edit]- Recherches sur l'histoire, la religion et la civilisation de Capoue préromaine des origines à la deuxième guerre punique (« Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome », 154), Paris, de Boccard, 1942, 483 p. (State thesis).
- Rome et la Méditerranée occidentale jusqu'aux guerres puniques, Nouvelle Clio, PUF, 3rd edition 1993 ISBN 2130457010
- La Vie quotidienne des Étrusques, Hachette, 1961 and 1989, 361 pages ISBN 9782010150746
- Le Trésor de Ténès, 86 pages, 1958, reprint Flammarion, 1992 ISBN 2082103943
- Le ciel a eu le temps de changer, correspondence 1922-1944 de Jacques Heurgon with Jean Tardieu, 272 pages, 2004, ISBN 2908295741
References
[edit]- ^ Correspondance de Jean Tardieu et Jacques Heurgon Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, fondation La Poste
External links
[edit]- Jacques Heurgon on Encyclopedia Universalis
- Jacques Heurgon on the site of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- Obituary on the site of the Independent
- Allocution à l'occasion du décès de M. Jacques Heurgon, académicien ordinaire on Persée
- Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- French scholars of Roman history
- 20th-century French historians
- French Latinists
- Linguists of Etruscan
- Lycée Condorcet alumni
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- Writers from Paris
- 1903 births
- 1995 deaths
- Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
- Academic staff of the University of Paris