20th-century French Hellenist and scholar of ancient Greek
Jacques Bompaire (16 January 1924 – 6 May 2009) was a 20th-century French Hellenist and scholar of ancient Greek and Greek literature of the Roman and Byzantine period.
Biography.
A former student of the École normale supérieure (class 1943), he volunteered in 1944 for the remainder of World War II. Received first to the Agrégation de Lettres Classiques in 1947, he was elected a member of the French School at Athens in 1948. He devoted his doctoral research on Lucian, and in 1956 supported a State thesis entitled "Lucien écrivain. Imitation et création". His complementary thesis, the same year, is devoted in turn to the "Praktika de Xéropotamou", he published and commented census acts regarding land area of Xeropotamou monastery on Mount Athos during the Byzantine period.
He presided the Association Guillaume Budé from 1989 to 1996, then became its honorary president until his death. He was President of the Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français from 1982 to 1990.
Main works.
Festschrift.
"Opôra, la belle saison de l'hellénisme: Études de littérature antique". Ancient literature studies offered to the rector Jacques Bompaire, Presses de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, 2001 (complete bibliography inserted).
References.
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Bibliography.
 1981–1988 