Jacqueline de Romilly

Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece)

Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (French: [miji]; ne

David,[1] 26 March 1913 18 December 2010) was
a Franco-Greek philologist, classical scholar and ction
writer. Because she was of Jewish ancestry, the Vichy
government suspended her from her teaching duties during the Occupation of France.[2] she was the rst woman
nominated to the Collge de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Acadmie franaise. She was
also known for her work on the culture and language of
ancient Greece, and in particular on Thucydides.

Commander of the Order of Honour (Greece)

Elected to the Acadmie franaise (24 November
24, 1988)
First woman professor at the Collge de France
(Chair: Greece and the formation of the moral and
political thought)
First woman member of the Acadmie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1975)

Biography

President of the Academy of Inscriptions and BellesLettres (1987)

Born in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, she studied at the Lyce

Molire, where she won the Concours gnral in Latin
and took second prize in Ancient Greek in 1930. She
then prepared for the cole Normale Suprieure at the
Lyce Louis-le-Grand. She entered the class of 1933 of
the ENS Ulm. She passed the agrgation in Classics in
1936, and became a doctor of letters in 1947.

Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1981)[6]

Appointed by Greece as Ambassador of Hellenism
(which it receives citizenship in 1995)(2000)

After being a schoolteacher, she became a professor at

Lille University and subsequently at the Sorbonne, between 1957 and 1973. She later was promoted to the
chair of Greek and the development of moral and political thought at the Collge de France the rst woman
nominated to this prestigious institution. In 1988, she was
the second woman (after Marguerite Yourcenar) to enter
the Acadmie franaise, being elected to Chair #7, which
was previously occupied by Andr Roussin.

Ambatielos Prize of the Acadmie des Inscriptions

et Belles-Lettres (1948)
Croiset Prize of the Institut de France (1969)
Langlois Prize of the Acadmie franaise (1974)
Grand Prize of the Acadmie franaise (1984

In 1995, she obtained Greek nationality and in 2000 was

named as an Ambassador of Hellenism by the Greek government. A one-time president of the Association Guillaume Bud, she remained an honorary president until her
death at a hospital in Boulogne-Billancourt at the age of
97.[3]

Onassis Prize (Athens, 1995)

Daudet Prize for defence of the French language
(2000)
Prize of the Greek Parliament (2008)

After having only received baptism in 1940, she fully converted to Maronite Catholicism in 2008, aged 95.[4][5]

Foreign Honorary Member of the American

Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988)[7]

Honours and awards

Corresponding member of foreign academies: Denmark, Great Britain, Vienna, Athens, Bavaria, the
Netherlands, Naples, Turin, Genoa and the United
States.

Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (2007)

Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mrite

Honorary doctorates from the universities of

Oxford, Athens, Dublin, Heidelberg, Montreal and
Yale University

Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Acadmiques

Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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References

[1] French Scholar Jacqueline de Romilly Dies at 97 Los

Angeles Times 20 December 2010
[2] Dorigine juive, elle est suspendue de ses fonctions par le
rgime de Vichy en 1941.
[3] Jacqueline de Romilly, hellniste et acadmicienne, est
morte. Le Monde. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
[4] Dossier. Jacqueline de Romilly, une Athnienne au XXe
sicle. La Croix. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
[5] Raction du P. Mansour Labaky au dcs de Jacqueline
de Romilly. La Croix. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
[6] Reply to a parliamentary question (PDF) (in German).
p. 626. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
[7] Book of Members, 17802010: Chapter D (PDF).
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 25
July 2014.

External links
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