Death of Professor Pierre Carlier

We have the great sadness to announce the death of Professor Pierre Carlier (62 years) Monday 25 July 2011.

Pierre Carlier was professor in Ancient History in Strasbourg, Nancy, and then Nanterre university and also lectured at the École Normale Supérieure. His double training in political sciences and classical philology laid the foundations of a remarkable scholarship which already in 1984 resulted in his influential monograph La Royauté en Grèce avant Alexandre. His vast scholarship since then includes specialized works on Mycenaean epigraphy and ancient history as well as publications on Homer and Demosthenes. In recent years he devoted an important part of his teaching and research time to the study of Aristotle. Last autumn, as secrétaire général of the Comité International Permanent d’Études Mycéniennes, he organised the 13th mycenological colloquium in Paris with great success. All those who were lucky to know him will miss scholarly discussions with him as well as his company. Pierre Carlier was a dedicated scholar, and also a passionate teacher. He was a true intellectual and a generous person. He was particularly devoted to training young scholars, which he kept helping until the very last weeks of his life;  a long list of students on master, PhD  and post-doctoral level benefited from and enjoyed his lucid remarks and analyses. We were fortunate to be among them.

Massimo Perna
Marie-Louise Nosch
Francoise Rougemont
Julien Zurbach
Mario Grimaldi