Biography

Born on January 27, 1928 in Saint-Hernin (Finistère). Died July on 3, 2014.

Education and professional career

  • 1948-1952: Student at the École normale supérieure
  • 1952: Agrégation des Lettres
  • 1952-1955: École française d'Athènes
  • 1955-1958: French Institute of Archaeology, Beirut
  • 1958-1961: Curator, Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
  • 1961-1975: Chief Curator of the Cabinet des Médailles
  • Since 1964: Director of Studies at the École pratique des Hautes Études, IVe section
  • 1965: Doctorat d'État. Principal thesis: "Susa under the Seleucids and Parthians". Complementary thesis: "Cretan coins from the 5th to the 1st century B.C."
  • 1968-1969: Professor of Greek history at Lille University
  • 1975-1981: General Administrator of the French National Library
  • 1981-1984: Director of the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul
  • 1984-1993: Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV)
  • 1989: Member of the Institute (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
  • 1993-1998: Professor at the Collège de France, chair of Economic and Monetary History of the Hellenistic Orient
  • 1991-1995: Director of a CNRS GDR: "La circulation monétaire du Golfe Persique à la Méditerranée orientale et à la Mer Égée"
  • 1958-1975: Co-director of the Revue Numismatique
  • 1967-1973: Member of the International Numismatic Commission
  • 1973-1979: President of this Commission
  • 1973: President of the VIIIth International Numismatic Congress, New York-Washington
  • 1979: President of the IXth International Numismatic Congress, Bern

Awards and distinctions

  • 1976: Honorary doctorate from the University of Louvain
  • 1970-1986: Fellow of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
  • 1989: Publication of the volume Kraay-Mørkholm Essays, Numismatic Studies in Memory of Colin Kraay and Otto Mørkholm
  • 1996: Elected Fellow of the American Philosophical Society
  • Medal of the American Numismatic Society
  • Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society, London
  • D.F. Allen Award, British Academy
  • Honorary member of Société Française de Numismatique, American Numismatic Society, Société Belge de Numismatique, Austrian Numismatic Society, Romanian Numismatic Society, Archaeological Society of Athens, British Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies