Luc Brisson

1946 -

country of citizenship: Canada

languages spoken, written or signed: French, English

educated at: Paris Nanterre University, University of Montreal, École pratique des hautes études, Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3

occupation: philosopher, philosophy historian, research fellow, translator

award received: CNRS bronze medal

position held: Director of Research at CNRS

Luc Brisson (born 10 March 1946 in Saint-Esprit, Quebec) is a Canadian (and from 1986 also French) historian of philosophy and anthropologist of antiquity. He is emeritus director of research at the CNRS in France, and is considered by some of his colleagues and students to be the greatest contemporary scholar on Platonism. Source: Wikipedia (en)