Jeanne Robert (historian)


Jeanne Robert was a French ancient historian and epigrapher, and co-author and editor of many volumes on Greek epigraphy.

Personal life

Robert was born Jeanne Ismérie Vanseveren on the 31st December, 1910, in Houplines. She married Louis Robert in 1938, and began collaborating with him from around that time until his death in 1985. She donated Robert's archive of documents, ranging from epigraphic squeezes to photographs of inscriptions and sites, to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1998. She entrusted Glen Bowersock with oversight over the documents' use for research, with the assistance of François Chamoux, Jean-Louis Ferrary and Béatrice Meyer. A separate archive of both the Roberts' archaeological activities in Turkey after the Second World War is kept at the library of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art.
She died on the 30th January, 2002, in Montrouge.

Career

Robert was a specialist in modern and ancient Greek, as well as Turkish. She began publishing the Bulletin épigraphique, a regular part of the journal Revue des Études Grecques, with Louis Robert from 1938 to 1984. She also worked with him on excavations, particularly at Amyzou and the sanctuary of Apollo at Claros, between 1946 and 1964, and collaborated with him on certain volumes of the series Hellenica.

Selected bibliography