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Georges-Albert Radet (1859-1941) was a French epigrapher, archaeologist and historian. He was born in Chesley on 28 November 1859, and died at Saint-Morillon on 9 July 1941.
After studying at the École normale supérieure, Radet passed the agrégation in 1884 and joined the French School of Athens in the same year. Specialising in Asia, he travelled the continent on numerous occasions and in 1892 defended his doctoral thesis titled "La Lydie et le monde grec au temps de Mermnades, 687-546" [Lydia and the Greek world at the time of Mermnades, 687-546].
Between 1888 and 1934, he taught at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bordeaux, and was dean of the faculty from 1899 to 1919. He was awarded the Prix Kastner-Boursault in 1902. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres in 1904, and elected as a free member on 13 November 1925. He was co-founder of the School of Hispanic Studies and the Casa de Velázquez.
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Jean Antoine Letronne was a French archaeologist.
Charles Ernest Beulé was a French archaeologist and politician.
Louis Robert was a professor of Greek history and Epigraphy at the Collège de France, and author of many volumes and articles on Greek epigraphy, numismatics, and the historical geography of Greek lands.
Pierre Grimal was a French historian, classicist and Latinist. Fascinated by the Greek and Roman civilizations, he did much to promote the cultural inheritance of the classical world, both among specialists and the general public.
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Charles Diehl was a French historian born in Strasbourg. He was a leading authority on Byzantine art and history.
Pierre Jouguet was a French Egyptologist and classical philologist. In 1890 he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, obtaining his agrégation for grammar in 1893. For three years thereafter he was associated with the École française d’Athènes, followed by work at the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo (1896–97). From 1898 to 1910, he was a lecturer of grammar and philology at the Faculty of Arts in Lille. On 8 June 1911 he received his doctorate of letters at the Sorbonne, subsequently serving as a professor of ancient history and papyrology in Lille. From 1920 to 1933, he was a professor of papyrology at the Sorbonne, meanwhile serving as director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (1928-1940). From 1937 to 1949, he was a professor at Fouad I University in Cairo.
Pierre Amandry was a French hellenist, especially interested in ancient Greece and its relationships with south-west Asia. He was born at Troyes on December 31, 1912, and died in Paris on February 21, 2006. A large part of his work was on the site of Delphi, excavated by the French School at Athens, of which he was secretary general from 1941 to 1948 and director from 1969 to 1981.
Léon-Maxime Collignon was a French archaeologist who specialized in ancient Greek art and architecture.
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Roland Martin was a French archaeologist.
Bernard Haussoullier was a French Hellenist, epigrapher and archaeologist.
William Seston was a 20th-century French historian and epigrapher, a specialist of the history of the Roman Empire. He was professor at the Sorbonne and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Jean-Louis Ferrary was a French historian, a specialist in ancient Rome.
Léon Homo was a 20th-century French historian, a specialist of Roman history.
Philippe-Ernest Legrand was a French Hellenist. An historian, philologist, archaeologist, epigrapher, his great work was the translation and editing of Histories (Herodotus), published in the Collection Budé, which is still a reference.
Jacques Heurgon 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".
Jean Bayet was a French Latinist. A Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the Sorbonne, he was Director-General of Education in 1944 and Director of the École française de Rome from 1952 to 1960. In 1948 he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. A specialist of Latin literature and Religion in ancient Rome, Jean Bayet, through his works and the theses he directed, played a decisive role in the development of a French school of history of the Roman religion, particularly active in the second half of the twentieth century.
The Prix Bordin is a series of prizes awarded annually by each of the five institutions making up the Institut Français since 1835.
Véronique Chankowski is a French historian. She is a specialist in the economic and social history of the ancient Greek world. She has served as the Director of the French School at Athens since 2019.
