Jerome Carcopino

Jerome Carcopino is a historian and French senior official, born with Verneuil-sur-Avre (the Eure) the June 27th 1881 and died in Paris the March 17th 1970. Its ambiguous posture under the mode of Vichy made of him a subject of controversy for the current historians. He was the cousin of Francis Carco.

Biography

Wire of a Corsican doctor of origin, Jerome Carcopino integrated the National university in 1901 and was accepted first with aggregation of history and geography in 1904. Member of the French School of Rome, it remained some time there. He was then named professor of history to the college of Le Havre, where he taught 1907 with 1911.

After having been during one year secretary of Raymond Poincaré, it was in 1912 part-time lecturer to the faculty of Algiers. The following year, it obtained the statute of assistant inspector and became director of the national museum of Algerian antiquities.

During the First World War, it was used in the army as the East, and obtained two quotations and the Légion of honor on a purely military basis.

In 1918, it supported its two theses (in particular one dealing with the origins of Ostie according to the work of Virgile), taught the Roman history with the Sorbonne, then was named in 1937 directing of the French École of Rome, writing its Roman memories with Mgr Louis Duchesne, celebrates historian, archeologist and modernistic ecclesiastic.

Under the Occupation, it directed the National university of 1940 to 1942, and assumed, without having of it the title, the functions of vice-chancellor of the Academy of Paris after the revocation of Gustave Roussy following the demonstrations coeds of November 11th, 1940. In February 1941, it was named Secretary of State to State education and Youth in the government of the admiral Darlan. It in particular attached its name to the important law of April 27th, 1941 on the archaeological excavations, called “law Carcopino”, which gave during more than one half-century its legal framework to French archeology, like to the reorganization of the secondary education of August 15th, 1941. In these functions, it made apply the laws of the mode of Vichy, in particular Jewish texts excluding and freemasons from the public office.

With the return of Pierre Laval to the businesses in April 1942, Carcopino resigned at once and, finding its position of director of the National university, endeavoured to make escape its pupils the STO.

With the Release, it was purified and revoked its functions for its participation in the Vichy government. Imprisoned in Fresnes as of August 1944, in the same cell that Sacha Guitry, it obtained its provisional release in February 1945. January 11th, 1947, the High court of justice hands down a judgment of withdrawal of case for rendered services to the Résistance. In 1951, it was reinstated in its functions.

Historian of ancient Rome, Jerome Carcopino published many works among which one must quote: Ovide and the worship of Isis , Sylla or missed monarchy (1932), mystical Aspects of pagan Rome , De Pythagore with the apostles , the Daily life in Rome with the apogee of the Empire (1939), etc Its work most known is its César (1936).

Member of the pontifical Academy of Roman archeology, doctor honoris causa of the University of Oxford, member of the Academy of the inscriptions and the humanities, Jerome Carcopino was elected with the French Academy on November 24th 1955 with the armchair of André Chaumeix.

In 1969, its name was given to the archaeological Museum of Aléria, site of which he had encouraged the excavations.

External bonds

biographical Card on the site of the French Academy
Pierre Boyancé, “Jerome Carcopino, French Principal of Rome (1937-1940)”, '' Mélanges of archeology and history '', 1970,82-2, p. 565 - 570.

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