Jean-Louis Ferrary (May 5, 1948 – August 9, 2020) was a French historian, a specialist in

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Biography

Born in 1948 in Orléans, Jean-Louis Ferrary entered the

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in 1967 and obtained his agrégation in Classical Letters in 1970. A member of the

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from 1973 to 1976, he was then elected a lecturer at the Sorbonne University and continued his career at the

École pratique des hautes études The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college o ...

, where he has been a lecturer (1983) and director of studies (since 1989). His lecture title was « Histoire des institutions et des idées politiques du monde romain ». He received his PhD in 1987 after working under the direction of Pierre Grimal and Claude Nicolet. His thesis, ''Philhellénisme et impérialisme : aspects idéologiques de la conquête romaine du monde hellénistique'', is a milestone in the study of the relations between Rome and the Greek world.See the report by Jean Andreau: "Jean-Louis Ferrary, Philhellénisme et impérialisme : aspects idéologiques de la conquête romaine du monde hellénistique", ''Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations'', 1992, vol. 47, n° 2, pp. 410-41
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/ref> Jean-Louis Ferrary was interested in the history of institutions, law and the laws of ancient Rome, in the history of ideas and the ancient political philosophy, in Greek and Latin epigraphy of Roman times, Latin

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and

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. He was elected to the

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in 2005, succeeding

Maurice Euzennat Maurice Euzennat (15 Novembre 1926 – 25 July 2004) was a French historian and archaeologist. Career After he passed his agrégation in history and resided at the école française de Rome between 1951 and 1954, Maurice Euzennat made a par ...

. He was a specialist of Polybius and

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. He was elected to the

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in 2019. He died in Paris.

Honours

* Knight of the

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(

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) * Knight of the National Order of Merit (France) * Commander of the

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Main publications

* ''Philhellénisme et impérialisme. Aspects idéologiques de la conquête romaine du monde hellénistique'', Rome, BEFAR, 1988 * ''Onofrio Panvinio et les Antiquités romaines'', Rome, Collection de l’École Française de Rome, 1996 * ''Recherches sur les lois comitiales et sur le droit public romain'', Pavie, Pavia University Press, 2012 * ''Les mémoriaux de délégations de Claros, d’après la documentation conservée dans le Fonds Jeanne et Louis Robert'', Paris, De Boccard, 2015 * ''Rome et le monde grec : Choix d'écrits'', Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2016 * ''Dall'ordine repubblicano ai poteri di Augusto : aspetti della legislazione romana'', Rome, L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2016 * ''Quintus Mucius Scævola : Opra'', Rome, L'Erma di Bretschneider, coll. « Scriptores iuris Romani », 2018

References

External links

Biography on the site of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrary, Jean-Louis Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études French scholars of Roman history French epigraphers 20th-century French historians École Normale Supérieure alumni Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Knights of the Legion of Honour Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques Writers from Orléans 1948 births 2020 deaths Members of the American Philosophical Society