Jean-Pierre Néraudau

Jean-Pierre Néraudau
Born 30 January 1940
Algiers
Died 20 December 1998(1998-12-20) (aged 58)
Paris

Jean-Pierre Néraudau (30 January 1940 – 20 December 1998) was a 20th-century French writer and professor of Latin literature.

Biography

The son of an officer in the French army, he studied in Dijon, where his family had settled in 1946. Agrégé of letters in 1964, he was named a high school teacher in Chartres where he remained until 1967.

Appointed a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1968, he began a thesis on Roman youth during the Republican era, led by Jacques Heurgon. From 1974 to 1990 he was treasurer of the "Société des Études Latines".

He was a professor at Aix-en-Provence from 1979 to 1988 and then at the University of Reims, where he founded the association "Auspex" and the "Centre de Recherche sur les classicismes antiques et modernes" (with professor Georges Forestier), which became the "Centre de Recherche sur la Transmission des Modèles Littéraires et Esthétiques" after his departure. He was, among many others, Xavier Darcos's thesis director. He was then a professor at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.

As a novelist, Jean-Pierre Néraudau published Les Louves du Palatin (Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1981), Le Mystère du jardin romain (Les Belles Lettres, 1992) and Le Prince posthume.

Publications

Posthumous publications
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