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Anatole Bailly (;
Orléans
Orléans (,["Orleans"](_blank) (US) and [Hellenist, author of the famous ' , which was published in 1895.
] Biography
Anatole Bailly was born at Orleans on 16 December 1833 to a family of moderate wealth - his father was a director of the auditing company ''L'Orléanaise'' and his mother ran a small store selling groceries, fruit and sewing supplies. He studied at a college in Orleans and obtained a bachelor of letters. He was then sent to Paris to prepare for entry into the École Normale Supérieure
École or Ecole may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ... in a private institution, which he graduated from in 1853.
Anatole Bailly began his career in education as a substitute at the lycée
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 14.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for students between ... in Lyons
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ... . There he successfully achieved the agrégation
In France, the () is the most competitive and prestigious examination for civil service in the French public education
A state school, public school, or government school is a primary school, primary or secondary school that educates all stu ... de grammaire. Named a professor at the lycée in Lyon, he left this city in 1859 for a job at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand
The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on Rue Saint-Jacques (Paris), rue Saint-Jacques in central Par ... in Paris. In 1861 he was hired by the Lycée Pothier in Orleans, his home town. He spent the rest of his career in this post, from which he retired in 1889.
A competent and conscientious, but very modest, professor, Bailly authored numerous textbooks, grammars and dictionaries of Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ... and Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ... which were popular in French schools at the end of the 19th century. He was equally interested in history and wrote many biographical accounts of overlooked people from Orleans. He became a member of Orleans scholarly societies of Orleans: the ''Société d'Agriculture, Sciences, Belles-lettres et Arts d'Orléans'' and the ''Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais''. At a national level, he was a member of the ''Conseil académique de Paris'' and the ''Association pour l'encouragement des études grecques en France'' (from its foundation in 1867), in addition to being appointed a correspondent of the Institut de France
The ; ) is a French learned society, grouping five , including the . It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention. Located on the Quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the institute manages approximately ... in the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres).
History ... in 1889. Among other roles, Bailly was an officer of the Académie, a knight of the Légion d'honneur
The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ... , and a knight of the royal order of the Sauveur de Grèce.
After the publication in 1885 of the ''Dictionnaire étymologique latin'' which he co-authored with Michel Bréal
Michel Jules Alfred Bréal (; 26 March 183225 November 1915), French philologist, was born at Landau in Rhenish Palatinate. He is often identified as a founder of modern semantics. He was also the creator of the modern marathon race, having pr ... , Bailly completed the ''Dictionnaire grec-français'' with the assistance of Émile Egger in 1895. This last work assured his scholarly reputation. The abridged version, which was about half the length of the original, appeared in 1901. He was in the process of producing a revised edition of what would come to be known as ''Le Bailly'', when he died suddenly on 12 December 1911 in his family home, in which he had spent the greater part of his life.
Legacy
A college in Orleans established in June 2008 is named in his honour.
References
* Serge Vannier, ''Les Hommes célèbres du XXe dans le Loiret'', Romorantin, CPE, 2001.
* A. Bouvier, "Notice sur M. Anatole Bailly," ''Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Orléans '', Series 5, Vol. 12, Orléans, 1912, Online .
* Dr Courgeon, "Discours prononcé pour le centenaire de la naissance d'Anatole Bailly," in ''Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Orléans,'' series 5, Vol. 25, Orléans, 1933, Online .
External links
; ''Abrégé du dictionnaire grec-français'' (Abridgement of the Greek-French Dictionary), 1901
archive.org (pdf & djvu online)
(pdf per page online)
(texte online)
; ''Dictionnaire étymologique latin'' (Latin Etymological Dictionary), 1885
archive.org (incomplete)
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