Alain Le Boulluec (born 1941) [1] is a contemporary French patristics scholar working mainly in the sphere of Clement of Alexandria and of Origen of Alexandria.
Le Boulluec is the Director Emeritus of Studies of the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, part of the University of Paris. His studies have also focused on heresy and on the Neo-Chalcedonian movement which developed in theology during the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527-565 AD).
Among his publications Le Boulluec has edited Clément d'Alexandrie, Stromates V and VII in the Sources Chrétiennes collection (nos.278,279,428). He is also a contributor to the la Bible d'Alexandrie , a translation of the Septuagint.
Jean Antoine Letronne was a French archaeologist.
The Patrologia Orientalis is an attempt to create a comprehensive collection of the writings by eastern Church Fathers in Syriac, Armenian, Arabic, Coptic, Ge'ez, Georgian, and Slavonic, published with a Latin, English, Italian or mostly French translation. It is designed to complement the comprehensive, influential, and monumental Latin and Greek patrologies published in the 19th century. It began in 1897 as the Patrologia Syriaca, was discontinued in its original form and replaced by the Patrologia Orientalis. The collection began with those liturgical texts that touch on hagiography. Since then critical editions of the Bible, theological works, homilies and letters have been published.
Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy was a French orientalist.
Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou was a French Jesuit and cardinal, an internationally well known patrologist, theologian and historian and a member of the Académie française.
Robert Flacelière was a scholar of Classical Greek. He was educated at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, the Lycée Henri IV and the École Normale Supérieure. From 1925 to 1930, he was a member of the French School in Athens and from 1932-1948 a Professor of the Faculty of Letters at University of Lyon. He was then appointed to the Chair of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Paris, a post he held until 1963 when he was appointed Director of the École Normale Supérieure.
Alfred Jeanroy was a French linguist.
Jean Paul Louis François Édouard Leuge-Dulaurier was a French Orientalist, Armenian studies scholar and Egyptologist.
Georges Balandier was a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Balandier was born in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont. He was a professor at the Sorbonne, and is a member of the Center for African Studies, a research center of the École pratique des hautes études. He held for many years the Editorship of Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie and edited the series Sociologie d'Aujourd'hui at Presses Universitaires de France. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1976. He died on 5 October 2016 at the age of 95.
François Nau was a French Catholic priest, mathematician, Syriacist, and specialist in oriental languages. He published a great number of eastern Christian texts and translations for the first and often only time.
Marguerite Harl 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 of Henri-Irénée Marrou. She was a professor of Ancient Greek at the Sorbonne University from 1958 to 1983.
Robert Arnauld d’Andilly was a French conseiller d’État, specialising in financial questions, in the court of Marie de' Medici. By the elegance of his language, he was among the major poets, writers and translators of 17th century French classicism. A fervent Catholic, he played an important role in the history of Jansenism and was one of the Solitaires of Port-Royal-des-Champs. He was also renowned for his part in the development of the pruning of fruit trees, to which he was devoted.
Geneviève Hasenohr is a French philologist and prolific scholar of medieval and Renaissance French literature. She has authored or contributed to more than forty books, written at least fifty academic articles and reviews, and prepared numerous scholarly editions.
Michel Spanneut was a French priest and patristics scholar. From a Flemish speaking agricultural family in the Nord Département, after primary school he entered the Petit séminaire at Hazebrook. Following studies at the Université Catholique de Lille, where he obtained a doctorate in theology, and ordination to the priesthood in 1944, he completed a doctorat d' état under the direction of Henri-Irénée Marrou devoted to the influence of Stoic philosophy on Church Fathers from Clement of Rome to Clement of Alexandria. The permanence of Stoicism in Western thought remained one of his major preoccupations. Some of his early publications dealt with Eustathius of Antioch. A teacher at the Université Catholique de Lille from 1955 to 1989 he became Dean of the Faculty of Letters. He was an honorary canon of Lille.
Rémi Gounelle is a French protestant theologian, a professor of history of early Christianity at the Faculté de théologie protestante de Strasbourg and dean of that same faculty since 2010.
Claude Lepelley was a 20th-21st-century French historian, a specialist of late Antiquity and North Africa during Antiquity. His thesis, Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, defended in 1977 under the direction of William Seston, profoundly changed the understanding of the urban world in the 3rd and 4th centuries; far from declining, the cities of Africa had some prosperity.
Hubert Octave Pernot was a French linguist, specializing in Modern Greek studies.
Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine is a French philosopher, essayist, and historian of East European history and culture.
Claude Gauvard is a French historian and Middle Ages specialist. She has been the President of Société de l'histoire de France since 2009.
Pierre Maraval was a French historian and academic, specialising in the Early Christianity and of Late antiquity.
Jacques Matter was an inspector general and professor of ecclesiastical history for the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Strasbourg.