André-Jean Festugière

André- Jean Festugiere ( born March 15, 1898 in Paris, † August 13, 1982 in Saint- Dizier ) was a French historian of religion and classical philologist.

Life

Festugiere completed his high school studies during the First World War in Paris, visited ibid 1918 at the École Normale Supérieure and was from 1920 to 1922 Member of the Ecole Francaise in Rome and Athens. In 1924 he entered the Dominican Order and was ordained a priest in 1930. He was then a year in Jerusalem, and in 1937 received his doctorate at the Sorbonne for Docteur ès lettres. From 1940 he began his teaching career at the Institut Catholique in Paris and since 1943 as Directeur d' études at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris until 1968. His teaching was the Greek religious history in the Hellenistic and Roman period.

Festugiere was a prolific scholar and relentless worker in science with a yield of over 70 books and 175 articles, including Socrates, Plato, Epicurus, Proclus and the Corpus Hermeticum. A complement to the 4 -volume Corpus Hermeticum was also the 4- volume work, Revelation of Hermes Trismegistus '. For his scientific achievements Festugiere was taken on June 28, 1963 in the Order Pour le Mérite for Wisenschaft and arts as a foreign member.