Jean Pouilloux

Jean Pouilloux , born with the Green (Two-Sevres) the October 31st 1917, deceased in Condrieu the Rhone the May 23rd 1996, archeologist and epigraphist French, specialist in the ancient Greece.

Biography

After studies with the National university of the street of Ulm (promotion 1939) and with the French School of Athens (1945-1949), it is named with the Faculty of Arts of the university of Lyon. In 1955, it obtains its Doctorat State with a principal thesis on the history of Thasos and a secondary thesis on the fortress of Rhamnonte. It is then university lecturer, then professor of old story to the faculty of Besançon.En 1957, it receives, always with the Faculty of Lyon, a pulpit of archeology and of epigraphy Greek and two years later, it founds the Fernand-Courby Institute, specialized in the Greek epigraphy. In 1960, it publishes Choix of Greek inscriptions , tool for initiation which quickly becomes traditional. It takes in 1972 the direction of the Research center archaeological of CNRS, then in 1976 scientific director of CNRS for humanities. In 1978, he is elected with the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities, whose he will assume the chairmanship in 1988, just as of the Institut of France.

Parallel to its university career, it continues its work of excavations, in particular with Delphes and Cyprus, where it founds the French archaeological mission of Salamine of Cyprus in 1964.

It is also interested in the influence of Greece in the East, thus melting the House of the old Mediterranean East in Lyon in 1975 (become today the Maison of the East and the Mediterranean Jean Pouilloux), like with the judéo-Greek literature: it directs as from the years 1960, in company of the father Claude Mondésert and of Roger Arnaldez the publication of works of Philon of Alexandria, from which it personally translates four volumes in the collection of Patristique “Sources Christian”, to the Éditions of the Stag.

It had as a pupil the historian Maurice Sartre.

Principal works

Choice of Greek inscriptions , 1st publication in 1960 with the university Presses of Lyon, republished by the Beautiful Letters, coll “Epigraphica”, 2003;
translation, Stag, coll “Christian Sources”:

Of will agricultura , Philon of Alexandria, n° 9,1961;
Of plantatione , Philon of Alexandria, n° 10,1961;
Of vita Mosis, III , Philon of Alexandria, n° 22,1967;
Of æternitate mundi , Philon of Alexandria, n° 30,1969;

collaboration: New choice of Greek inscriptions , 1st publication in 1971 with the university Presses of Lyon, republished by the Beautiful Letters, coll “Epigraphica”, 2005;
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΙΝΑ. Hellenism, Judaism and Christianity in Alexandria, mixtures offered to the P. Claude Mondésert , Stag, 1987;
foreword: the Collection “Christian Sources”. To publish the Fathers of the Church at the 20th century , Stag, 1995.

External bonds

Homage to Jean Pouilloux of the House of the East and the Mediterranean
Discussion with Jean Pouilloux in the series oral Files of CNRS

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