Jacques Jarry (17 October 1929 – 18 January 2023) was a French linguist and archeologist.[1]
Jacques Jarry | |
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 Jarry in 2021 | |
| Born | 17 October 1929 |
| Died | 18 January 2023 (aged 93) Vouillé, Deux-Sèvres, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | École normale supérieure |
| Occupation(s) | Linguist Archeologist |
Biography
editBorn in Niort on 17 October 1929, Jarry attended secondary school in Paris before entering the École normale supérieure in 1949.[2] After that, he became an honorary member of the Institut du Caire and practiced archeology in France, Egypt, and the Middle East. A linguist and interpreter, he was fluent in fifteen languages: Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish, English, Arabic, Latin, ancient and modern Greek, and French.[citation needed]
During the 1960s, Jarry lived in Lebanon, where he married and saw the birth of his first child, a daughter. In 1965, he went to Egypt and participated in archeological excavations. He was then sent to Nigeria and Japan, where he settled and started a new family. He returned to France in 1975 and obtained a teaching position at the Lycée de Melle. He participated in excavations with secondary school students, including along the Niort ring road.[citation needed]
Jarry lived in France throughout the 1980s, where he carried out excavations along the A10 autoroute in Deux-Sèvres. During this era, he also spent time in Japan, where he worked as a professor and interpreter at Hiroshima University.[3] He retired in 2009 and lived near Niort, where he wrote a book titled Inscriptions latines et étrangères du Poitou. Throughout his career, his work on archeological excavations gained international renown.[4][5][6] During his retirement, he examined the Glozel artifacts and shed new light on their linguistics.[7] He shared his findings at the science festival in Faye-l'Abbesse in 2009.[citation needed]
Jarry died in Vouillé, Deux-Sèvres on 18 January 2023, at the age of 93.[8]
Publications
edit- Hérésies et factions dans l'empire byzantin du IVe au VIIe siècle (1968)
- Hannya Shinghyo - The most famous of the sutras in Japan (2013)
References
edit- ^ Jarry, Jacques (1929-... (in French).
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ "Jarry Jacques". École normale supérieure (in French).
- ^ "Jacques JARRY". Hiroshima University (in French). Archived from the original on 23 April 2013.
- ^ Jarry, Jacques (1966). "Trouvailles épigraphiques à Saint-Syméon [article]". Persée (in French). 43 (1): 105–115. doi:10.3406/syria.1966.5840.
- ^ Nasrallah, Joseph (1971). "A propos des trouvailles épigraphiques à Saint-Siméon-l'Alépin. [article]". Persée (in French). 48 (1): 165–178. doi:10.3406/syria.1971.6228.
- ^ Jarry, Jacques (1966). "Trouvailles épigraphiques a Saint-Symeon". Syria (in French). 43 (1/2): 105–115. doi:10.3406/syria.1966.5840. JSTOR 4197563.
- ^ "Jacques Jarry". Musée de Glozel (in French). Archived from the original on 19 September 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ "Monsieur Jacques, André Jarry". avis-de-deces.net (in French).