Jean-Pierre Vernant
1914
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2007
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
Country of citizenship: France
Languages spoken, written or signed: French
Educated at: Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Carnot
Occupation: anthropologist, historian, professor, French resistance fighter, philosopher, hellenist, researcher
Award received: Croix de guerre 1939–1945, Companion of the Liberation, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit, Officer of Arts and Letters, Order of the Serbian Flag, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, CNRS silver medal, Amic Prize, CNRS Gold medal, Prix de l'Union rationaliste, honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University, Prix Essai France Télévisions
Student of: Ignace Meyerson
Influenced by: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Bibliographic databases:
Jean-Pierre Vernant (French: [vɛʁnɑ̃]; January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007) was a French resistant, historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars. He was an honorary professor at the Collège de France. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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