Jean Pouilloux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jean Pouilloux

archaeologist

Date of Birth: 31-Oct-1917

Place of Birth: Le Vert, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 23-May-1996

Profession: historian, archaeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Jean Pouilloux

  • Professor Jean Pouilloux, born October 31, 1917 in Le Vert (Deux-Sèvres), France and died at Pimontin (Rhone) May 23, 1996 was a French hellenist archaeologist.He was educated at the École normale supĂ©rieure de la rue d’Ulm from 1939 to 1944.
  • He completed his training and made his initial research at the French School of Archaeology in Athens, then was appointed in 1949 to the Faculty of Arts in Lyon.
  • From 1957 to 1985 he was Professor of Greek language, literature and epigraphy at the University of Lyon and the University Lumière Lyon 2.
  • Specialist in archeology and Greek epigraphy, he worked at Delphi, Rhamnus in Attica, the island of Thasos and Cyprus where he founded and directed an archaeological mission.
  • He was a member of the AcadĂ©mie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, several French and foreign academies and in 1988, president of the Institute of France. His teaching has attracted several generations of students but Jean was not only a teacher.
  • In 1959, he founded within the University of Lyon's Faculty of Arts, the Fernand Courby Institute, named after a Hellenist archaeologist who taught in the same faculty between the two wars.
  • In later years, he created a dynamic team around him, officially recognized by the CNRS in the 1960s.
  • In 1964, he obtained permission to excavate a large archaeological site in Cyprus; the ancient city of Salamis. Jean Pouilloux was a member of the National Council for Scientific Research, the Universities Advisory Committee, National Council of archaeological research, and for years on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Committee on the excavations.
  • For four years he chaired the Centre for Archaeological Research at CNRS in Sophia-Antipolis.
  • The culmination of his activity was the creation in 1975 of the Maison de l'Orient et de la MĂ©diterranĂ©e where he served as director until 1978.
  • In 1976, he was appointed scientific director of humanities at the CNRS for six years.
  • He was also notable for translation of Jewish-Greek literature in the 1960s, collaborating with Roger Arnaldez to publish works of Philo of Alexandria, of which he personally translated four volumes.

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