Jacqueline de Romilly
| Jacqueline de Romilly | |
|---|---|
| Born |
26 March 1913 Chartres, France |
| Died | 18 December 2010 (aged 97) Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
| Alma mater |
École Normale Supérieure University of Paris |
| Occupation | Writer Teacher |
| Known for | Member of the Académie française |
Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (French: [ʁɔmiji]; née David, 26 March 1913 – 18 December 2010) was a Franco-Greek philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. Because she was of Jewish ancestry, the Vichy government suspended her from her teaching duties during the Occupation of France. She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie française. She was also known for her work on the culture and language of ancient Greece, and in particular on Thucydides.
Born in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, she studied at the Lycée Molière, where she won the Concours général in Latin and took second prize in Ancient Greek in 1930. She then prepared for the École Normale Supérieure at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. She entered the class of 1933 of the ENS Ulm. She passed the agrégation in Classics in 1936, and became a doctor of letters at the University of Paris in 1947.
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