Born on November 8, 1920, in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône). Died on January 28, 2006.
Education and Professional Career
- 1945: Teacher at the Lycée d’Aix
- 1945–19746: Teacher at the Lycée de Digne
- 1946–1948: Head of the Cultural Section of the French Group of the Control Council
- 1948–1952: Researcher at the CNRS (intern, then research associate)
- 1952–1953: Research associate for the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and lecturer at the University of Hamburg
- 1953–1965: Lecturer, non-tenured professor, and professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Poitiers
- 1965–1972: Professor of Greek Philology at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities in Nanterre, which later became the University of Paris X
- 1972–1985: Professor of Classical Greek Philology at the University of Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)
- 1985–1992: Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Greek Textual Tradition and Criticism
- 1965–1992: Director of Studies in Greek Philology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Section IV)
- 1981–2006: Member of the Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
Awards and Honors
- 2002: Recipient of the “Antonio Feltrinelli” International Prize, awarded that year in the field of classical philology by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei