Jean-Luc Fournet (25 February 1965, Bordeaux) is a French

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

. A former scientific member of the

Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale The Institut français d'archéologie orientale (or IFAO), also known as the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, is a French research institute based in Cairo, Egypt, dedicated to the study of the archaeology, history and language ...

in Cairo (1992–1996), he was appointed chargé de recherche at the CNRS (1996–2004). He was elected 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 ...

(IV^e section, historical and philological sciences) in Greek papyrology in 2004 and professor at the

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...

to the chair "Culture écrite de l'Antiquité tardive et papyrologie byzantine" in 2015. He is, among others, co editor of the review ' and vice-president of the .

Bibliography

* ''Hellénisme dans l'Égypte du VI^e siècle. La bibliothèque et l'œuvre de Dioscore d'Aphrodité'', Cairo, IFAO, 1999 (). * ''Les archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodité cent ans après leur découverte – Histoire et culture dans l'Égypte byzantine'', Paris, De Boccard, 2009 (). * ''Alexandrie : une communauté linguistique ? ou la question du grec alexandrin'', IFAO, 2009 (). * (with A. Tihon), “Conformément aux observations d’Hipparque” '': le Papyrus Fouad inv. 267A'' (Publications de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 67), Louvain-La-Neuve 2014 () * Nombreux articles dans le domaine de la papyrologie, de la culture de l'Antiquité tardive et des inscriptions amphoriques protobyzantines.

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