André Laronde

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
André Laronde in Cyrene, 1973

André Laronde (19 June 1940, in Grenoble – 1 February 2011, in Paris) was a French historian and archaeologist. He was a specialist of Greek settlements in Cyrenaica (now Libya).

Career

Laronde wrote his PhD thesis under the directorship of

University of Grenoble, André Laronde was a professor at the Sorbonne[2] 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.[3]

He assisted François Chamoux since the creation in 1976 of the French Archaeological Mission in

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.[5]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ Fiche de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
  2. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
    , n° 1 (121st year), 1977, (p. 22), note 23
  3. , (p. 35–36)
  4. ^ Professor André Laronde

External links