Born November 8 1920, Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône). Died January 28 2006.
Education and professional career
- 1945 : Teacher at Lycée d'Aix
- 1945-19746 : Teacher at Lycée de Digne
- 1946-1948 : Head of the cultural section of the French Control Council Group
- 1948-1952 : Researcher at CNRS (intern, then research associate)
- 1952-1953 : Scientific contributor to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and lecturer at Hamburg University
- 1953-1965 : Senior lecturer, professor without a chair and professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Poitiers
- 1965-1972 : Professor of Greek philology at the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines de Nanterre, now the Université de 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 Tradition and Criticism of Greek Texts
- 1965-1992 : Director of Studies in Greek Philology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (IVe section)
- 1981-2006 : Member of the Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
Awards and honors
- 2002 : Winner of the " Antonio Feltrinelli " International Prize for Classical Philology awarded this year by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
