About Marguerite Harl
Lived 1919 – 2020 (aged 101). Marguerite Harl was a French hellenist, translator, collection manager and university teacher.
Marguerite Harl (3 April 1919 – 30 August 2020) was a French scholar, who worked on the Septuagint, Philo of Alexandria and early patristic writers such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen. She was born in Paris in April 1919 and became a pupil of Henri-Irénée Marrou. She was a professor of Ancient Greek at the Sorbonne University from 1958 to 1983.
Harl died in August 2020 at the age of 101.
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Who was Marguerite Harl?
French scholar (1919–2020)
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Marguerite Harl was born on 3 April 1919 in Dax.
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Marguerite Harl died on 30 August 2020 in Paris.
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Marguerite Harl was a hellenist, translator, collection manager and university teacher.
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Marguerite Harl was French.
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