André Laronde

André Laronde (19 June 1940, in Grenoble – 1 February 2011, in Paris) was a French hellenist archaeologist.

André Laronde in Cyrene, 1973

Career

After he taught at the University of Grenoble, André Laronde was a professor at the Sorbonne[1] in which he presented in 1976 his thesis for the State doctorate « Recherche sur l'histoire de Cyrène », which studied the history of Cyrenaica under the domination of the Lagides.[2]

He assisted François Chamoux since the creation in 1976 of the French Archaeological Mission in Tripoli, then became director from 1981. He also conducted the excavations in Cyrene and Apollonia, Cyrenaica.[3]

He was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2002.

He died of a heart attack on 1 February 2011 at the age of 70.[4]

Selected works
gollark: ++help
gollark: ```Get out of our way type system! We're going to reinterpret these bits or die trying! Even though this book is all about doing things that are unsafe, I really can't emphasize that you should deeply think about finding Another Way than the operations covered in this section. This is really, truly, the most horribly unsafe thing you can do in Rust. The railguards here are dental floss.```
gollark: _goes off to find rustonomicon_
gollark: https://pastebin.com/S2WeZawLI managed to cause an interesting compile error...
gollark: GAH! Even the inline assembly is too safe!

References
  1. Fiche de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
  2. François Chamoux, « Campagne de fouilles à Apollonia de Cyrénaïque (Libya) en 1976 », Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, n° 1 (121th year), 1977, (p. 22), note 23
  3. Claude Sintes, La Libye antique, Gallimard, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard / Archéologie » (nº 460), 2004, ISBN 2-07-030207-5, (p. 35–36)
  4. Professor André Laronde
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