Jérôme Carcopino
Jérôme Carcopino (27 June 1881 – 17 March 1970) was a French historian and author. He was the fifteenth member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française, in 1955.
Biography
Carcopino was born at Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure, son of a doctor from a Corsican family related to Bonaparte,[1] and educated at the École Normale Supérieure where he specialised in history. From 1904 to 1907 he was a member of the French School in Rome. In 1912 he was a professor of history in Le Havre. In 1912 he became a lecturer at the University of Algiers and inspector of antiquities in Algeria until 1920. His career was interrupted by World War I when he served in the Dardanelles. He became a professor at the Sorbonne in 1920 until 1937 when he became Director of the French School in Rome. From 25 February 1941 to 18 April 1942 he was the Minister of National Education and Youth in the government of Vichy France. He was a member of many archaeological and historical institutes in Europe.
Bibliography
- Jérôme Carcopino (1909). Histoire de l'ostracisme athénien. Mélanges d'histoire ancienne ;25. F. Alcan.
- —— (1919). Virgile et les origines d'Ostie. E. de Boccard.
- —— (1919). La loi de Hiéron et les Romains. E. de Boccard.
- —— (1924). Points de vue sur l'ìmpérialisme romain.
- —— (1928). Autour des Gracques, études critiques.
- —— (1940). La vie Quotidienne à Rome à l'Apogée de l'Empire. (English: Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire. Ed. Henry T. Rowell. Trans. Emily Overend Lorimer. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-00031-6.)
- —— (1951). Cicero: The Secrets of His Correspondence. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
- —— (1958). Passion et politique chez les Césars. Hachette.
- —— (1961). Les Etapes de l'impérialisme romain.
References
- ^ Pouillon, François (2008). Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française. Karthala. p. 150. ISBN 9782845868021.
External links
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from October 2022
- Articles with Internet Archive links
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with BNC identifiers
- Articles with BNE identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with CANTICN identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with ICCU identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with KBR identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with Libris identifiers
- Articles with LNB identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NLA identifiers
- Articles with NLG identifiers
- Articles with NLK identifiers
- Articles with NSK identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with PortugalA identifiers
- Articles with VcBA identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with Trove identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1881 births
- 1970 deaths
- People from Eure
- Writers from Normandy
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Paris
- French classical scholars
- French military personnel of World War I
- Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
- Historians of antiquity
- 20th-century French historians
- Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Members of the Académie Française
- Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- French people of Corsican descent
- French Ministers of National Education
- French scholars of Roman history