- Jacqueline de Romilly
Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (born
March 26 ,1913 ) is a French philologist of Jewish ancestry [http://www.parutions.com/pages/1-4-4-3976.html] : "D’origine juive, elle est suspendue de ses fonctions par le régime de Vichy en 1941."]Biography
Born in
Chartres , she studied at the lycée Molière, where she was the winner of theConcours général delatin and took the second prize in Greek in 1930. She then prepared for theÉcole Normale Supérieure at thelycée Louis-le-Grand . She entered ENS Ulm in the class of 1933. She then passed theagrégation of Classics in 1936, and became a doctor of letters in 1947.After having taught for some time in a
school , she became a professor first at theUniversity ofLille and subsequently at the Sorbonne (from 1957 to 1973). She was then elevated to the chair of Greek and the development of moral and political thought at theCollège de France — the first woman nominated to this prestigious institution. In 1988, she was the second woman (afterMarguerite Yourcenar ) to enter theAcadémie française , being elected to Chair #7, previously occupied by André Roussin. In 1995, she obtained Greek nationality and in 2000 was nominated Ambassador of Hellenism by the Greek government.She was at one time president of the
Association Guillaume Budé , and remains the honorary president of that institution.References
External links
* [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/index.html L'Académie française]
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