Jacques Jarry

Jacques Jarry
Jarry in 2021
Born(1929-10-17)17 October 1929
Died18 January 2023(2023-01-18) (aged 93)
NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole normale supérieure
Occupation(s)Linguist
Archeologist

Jacques Jarry (17 October 1929 – 18 January 2023) was a French linguist and archeologist.[1]

Biography

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Born 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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ Jarry, Jacques (1929-... (in French). {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "Jarry Jacques". École normale supérieure (in French).
  3. ^ "Jacques JARRY". Hiroshima University (in French). Archived from the original on 23 April 2013.
  4. ^ Jarry, Jacques (1966). "Trouvailles épigraphiques à Saint-Syméon [article]". Persée (in French). 43 (1): 105–115. doi:10.3406/syria.1966.5840.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Jarry, Jacques (1966). "Trouvailles épigraphiques a Saint-Symeon". Syria (in French). 43 (1/2): 105–115. doi:10.3406/syria.1966.5840. JSTOR 4197563.
  7. ^ "Jacques Jarry". Musée de Glozel (in French). Archived from the original on 19 September 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  8. ^ "Monsieur Jacques, André Jarry". avis-de-deces.net (in French).