Roland Martin (; 15 April 1912, Chaux-la-Lotière,

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– 14 January 1997,

Fixin Fixin () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne region on the Grand Crus route in eastern France. The French archaeologist Roland Martin (1912–1997) died in Fixin. Wine Fixin is one of the wine communes of Côte de ...

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) was a French

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

. From 1934 to 1938 Martin studied at the Sorbonne and 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 ...

. From 1938 until 1946, he was a member of the

French School at Athens The French School at Athens (, EfA; ''Gallikí Scholí Athinón'') is one of the seventeen foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. History Founded in 1846, the EfA is the oldest foreign institute in Athens. Its early f ...

. From 1936 to 1971, he taught at the

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, since 1956 as a professor. From 1965 to 1980 he was Directeur d'études 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 ...

and from 1971 to 1980 professor of Greek Archaeology at the University Paris I. A member 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 ...

, from 1958 until 1980 a member of the

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, of which he was honored with the CNRS Gold medal in 1981. Roland Martin's research focus were architecture and urbanism of ancient Greece. For this purpose, but generally also in search of

ancient Greek art Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which largely nude male figures were generally the focus of innovation. The rate of stylistic d ...

, he wrote several general surveys. He carried out excavations on the island of

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Works

*1964: ''Le monde grec.'' (with photos by Henri Stierlin). *1965: ''Manuel d'architecture grecque''. Vol. 1. ''Matériaux et techniques''. Picard, Paris. *1968: ''Grèce archaïque''. Galimard, Paris (with Jean Charbonneaux and François Villard). *1969: ''La Grèce classique''. Gallimard, Paris. (with Jean Charbonneaux and François Villard). *1970: ''Grèce hellenistique''. Galimard, Paris (with Jean Charbonneaux and François Villard). *1974: ''L'Urbanisme dans la Grèce antique''. 2. Auflage. Picard, Paris. *1975: ''Architektur der frühen Hochkulturen''. Belser, Stuttgart, (with Seton Lloyd and Hans Wolfgang Müller). *1976: ''La religion grecque''. PUF, Paris; with Henri Metger. *1982: ''L'Acropole d'Athènes''. BNP, Paris 1982. *1985: ''Dictionnaire méthodique de l'architecture grecque et romaine''. Vol 1. ''Matériaux, techniques de construction, techniques et formes du décor''. École française, Athens (with René Ginouvès inter alia). *1987: ''Griechenland''. DVA, Stuttgart, (Weltgeschichte der Architektur). *1987: ''Architecture et urbanisme''. École française, Athens. *1994: ''L'art grec''. Librairie générale française, Paris.

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