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

Biography

A former scientific member of the

Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale An institute is an organizational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes c ...

in Cairo (1992–1996), he was appointed chargé de recherche at the

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(1996–2004). He was elected at the

École pratique des hautes études The (), abbreviated EPHE, is a French postgraduate top level educational institution, a . EPHE is a constituent college of the Université PSL (together with ENS Ulm, Paris Dauphine or Ecole des Mines). The college is closely linked to É ...

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

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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 .

Distinctions

* 1999 : Bronze medal of the

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* 1999 : Prize of the French Association of Greek Studies * 2000 : Ambatielos Prize of 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 ...

* 2009 : Lantier Prize of the

* 2011 : Knight of the

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Publications

Books

* ''Hellénisme dans l'Égypte du VI^e siècle. La bibliothèque et l'œuvre de Dioscore d'Aphrodité'' (Cairo: IFAO, 1999) (). * ''Alexandrie : une communauté linguistique ? ou la question du grec alexandrin'' (Cairo: IFAO, 2009) (). * ''These Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory : Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity'' (Paris: Collège de France, 2016) * ''The Rise of Coptic : Egyptian Versus Greek in Late Antiquity'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020)

Collective works

* ''Les archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodité cent ans après leur découverte : Histoire et culture dans l'Égypte byzantine'' (Paris: De Boccard, 2009) () * ''Mélanges Jean Gascou. Textes et études papyrologiques'' (Paris: Association des amis du Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2016) * ''Les Hieroglyphica d'Horapollon de l'Égypte antique à l'Europe moderne : histoire, fiction et réappropriation'' (Paris: Association des amis du Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2021) * ''Le papyrus dans tous ses états : de Cléopâtre à Clovis'' (Paris: Collège de France, 2021) * ''Champollion 1822 : et l'Égypte ancienne retrouva la parole'' (Paris: Collège de France, 2022)

References

External links

Jean-Luc Fournet
on data.bnf.fr
Papyrologie : leçon inaugurale de Jean-Luc Fournet

CV et bibliographie complète
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fournet, Jean-Luc Scientists from Bordeaux 1965 births French papyrologists French Byzantinists Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études Academic staff of the Collège de France Living people