Jacqueline de Romilly#
Sadly, this member passed away. | |
Membership Number: | 705 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 1989 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Jacqueline de Romilly passed away December 18, 2010.
Positions Held
- 1973 Professor of Greek moral philosophy and politics (formation de la pensée morale et politique) at Collège de France (first female professor of this institution)
- 1957 Professor at the Sorbonne
- 1949 - 1957 Professor at Lille University and subsequently at the Sorbonne, between 1957 and 1973.
Fields of Scholarship
- Culture and language of ancient Greece
- Thucydides
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
- Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
- Commander of the Order of Honour (Greece)
- 1988 Elected to the Académie française
- First woman professor at the Collège de France (Chair: Greece and the formation of the moral and political thought)
- 1975 First woman member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- 1987 President of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres
- 1981 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
- 2000 Appointed by Greece as Ambassador of Hellenism (she had received Greek citizenship in 1995)
- 1948 Ambatielos Prize of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- 1969 Croiset Prize of the Institut de France
- 1974 Langlois Prize of the Académie française
- 1984 Grand Prize of the Académie française
- 1995 Onassis Prize - prize for her struggle to preserve teaching of ancient Greek and Latin
- 2000 Daudet Prize for defence of the French language
- 2008 Prize of the Greek Parliament
- 1988 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Corresponding member of foreign academies: Denmark, Great Britain, Vienna, Athens, Bavaria, the Netherlands, Naples, Turin, Genoa and the United States
- Honorary doctorates from the universities of Oxford, Athens, Dublin, Heidelberg, Montreal and Yale University