Jean Irigoin

Irigoin John, born Nov. 8, 1920 in Aix-en-Provence ( Bouches-du-Rhone ), died in Paris January 28, 2006, is a philologist , codicologists and paleographer French specialist in the history of textual transmission.

Biography

Career

After teaching in secondary and spent the aggregation of grammar , he held from 1946 to 1948 as Chief of the cultural section of the French group control of the Council of Berlin. Back in France, he opted for the CNRS. Disciple of Alphonse Dain and Pierre Chantraine , he argues his main thesis in 1952 on the History of the text of Pindar and in 1953 a secondary thesis entitled Research on the lyric meters Greek chorus: the structure of the verse. Meanwhile, he worked at Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and teaches at the University of Hamburg.

In 1953 he joined the faculty of Arts of the University of Poitiers , where he is a lecturer, then Professor of Greek Language and Literature. On the death of Alphonse Dain in 1964, he became head of the Greek series of the Collection of the Universities of France to the editions of Belles Lettres , which he held until 1999, all 236 volumes will be published under his supervision. In 1965 he was elected to the chair of Greek philology of the current University of Paris-X. The same year he joined the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Section ^IV) as director of Greek philology, again following Alphonse Dain. He was elected in 1972 as professor of classical Greek philology from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. In 1985, he left the Sorbonne to the College de France , which was created for him the chair of the chair of criticism of tradition and Greek texts. He succeeds Jacqueline de Romilly who occupied the chair of the formation of Greek moral and political thought. He retired at the College de France in 1990.

Honors

• 1981: election to the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres
• 1983-1996: Vice-President of the Association Guillaume Bude from 1983 to 1996
• 1989-1994: President of the International Federation of Societies of Classical Studies
• 1988-1993: President of the International Committee of Greek paleography
• 2003: Doctor honoris causa of the University of Athens

Main works

• 1952: History of the text of Pindar, Paris, Klincksieck (main thesis)
• 1953: Research on the meters of the Greek lyric choir: the structure of the verse, Paris, Klincksieck (secondary thesis)
• 1954: "The manuscript tradition of Sophocles," Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol 67, p. 507-511
• 1958:
  • The Pindar Scholia metrics, Geneva, Droz (Library of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, historical and philological sciences, Issue 310)
  • "For a copy centers Byzantine I ', Scriptorium, 12, 208-227
• 1959: "For a copy centers Byzantine II, Scriptorium, 13, p. 177-209
• 1972: Rules and recommendations for critical editions, Paris, Les Belles Lettres (Collection Universits de France, Greek series)
• 1977: The Greek and Byzantine paleography (in collaboration with Jacques Bompaire ) Proceedings of the International Colloquium of CNRS, ^No. 559, Paris, 21-25 October 1974
• 1988: "Accidents material and textual criticism," Journal of history texts, 16, p. 1-36
• 1997: Tradition and critical Greek texts, Paris, Belles Lettres (a collection of lectures given at ^the Fourth Section of the EPHE and lessons taught at the College de France)
• 2001: "Southern Italy and the transmission of Greek texts from ^the seventh to ^twelfth century" in The Ellenismo Italiote dal VII al XII secolo, Convegno Internazionale organizzato da 8: Istituto di Studi Ellenico Bizantini Postbizantini e Istituto di Ricerche di Venezia Byzantine / Atene, Venezia 13-16 November 1997, Athens, 2001 83-98.
• 2003:
  • The Tradition of Greek texts. For a historical critique, Paris, Belles Lettres
  • "Reading is to first seek to understand", in Christian Jacob (ed.), From Alexander II. The metamorphosis of the reader, Paris, editions of the National Library of France, p. 197-206.

Collection for Universities in France, he prepared the text editing Bacchylides , helped establish one of Volume IX (epigrams 359-827) of the Palatine Anthology and co-authored with Robert Flacelire General Introduction publishing the Moralia of Plutarch.

External Links

• Biography on the website of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres
• Biography on the site of the College de France
• Authority record National Library of France

• Ancient Greece Portal

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