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Marie Delcourt

1891 – 1979

Belgian classical scholar and historian

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Lived 1891 – 1979 (aged 87). Marie Delcourt was a Belgian university teacher, historian of religion, classical philologist, historian of classical antiquity, women's rights activist and translator.

Marie Delcourt (Ixelles, 18 November 1891 – Liège, 11 February 1979) was a Belgian classical philologist. She studied at the University of Liège (ULg), and obtained a PhD in classical philology in 1919. Under the German occupation of Belgium during World War I she was active in the Dame Blanche resistance network. She was the first female part-time lecturer at the ULg.

An expert in the history of the ancient Greek religion, Marie Delcourt was particularly interested in the psychological dimension of religious facts. She was also a newspaper columnist and editorialist. She was married to writer Alexis Curvers.

Publications Ancient history La vie d'Euripide, Éd. Gallimard, Paris, 1930. Rééd. Labor, Bruxelles, 2004, coll. Espace Nord Eschyle, Éd. Rieder, Paris, 1934 (Maîtres de Littérature, 18) Stérilités mystérieuses et naissances maléfiques dans l'antiquité classique, Éd. Droz, Paris, 1938 (FacPhLLg, 82) Périclès, Éd. Gallimard, Paris, 1939 (prix quinquennal de l'essai 1940) Légendes et cultes de héros en Grèce, P.U.F., Paris, 1942 Images de Grèce, Éd. Libris, Brussel, 1943 Œdipe ou la légende du conquérant, with Conrad Stein, Éd. Fac.Phil.Lett., Liège, 1944, (FacPhLg, 104) Translated by Malcolm B. DeBevoise as Oedipus; or, The Legend of a Conqueror (Michigan State University Press, 2020) Les grands sanctuaires de la Grèce, P.U.F. 1947 (Mythes et Religions, 21) L'oracle de Delphes, Éd. Payot, Paris, 1955 Héphaistos ou la légende du magicien, Éd. Belles-Lettres, Paris, 1957 (FacPhLLg 146) Hermaphrodite, mythes et rites de la bisexualité dans l'antiquité classique, Éd. P.U.F., Paris, 1958 (Mythes et Religions, 36) Translated by Jennifer Nicolson as Hermaphrodite: Myths and Rites of the Bisexual Figure in Classical Antiquity (1961) Oreste et Alcméon. Étude sur la projection légendaire du matricide en Grèce, Éd. Belles-Lettres, Paris, 1959 (FacPhLLg 151) Pyrrhus et Pyrrha. Recherches sur les valeurs du feu dans les légendes helléniques, Éd. Belles-Lettres, Paris 1965, (FacPhLLg 174) History of humanism Thomas More, œuvres choisies, Éd. La Renaissance du livre, Paris, 1936 (Les Cent Chefs-d'œuvre étrangers) Érasme, Éd. Libris, Brussels, 1944 Translations Tragiques Grecs. Euripide, Éd. Gallimard, Paris, 1962, (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade) Thomas More. L'Utopie, Éd. La Renaissance du Livre, Brussels, 1966 La correspondance d'Érasme, Collectif, tomes 1, 10, 11, Éd. Presses Académiques Européennes, Bruxelles, 1967–1982 Varia Jean Schlumberger, essai critique, Éd. Gallimard, Paris, 1945 Méthode de cuisine à l'usage des personnes intelligentes, Éd. Baude, Paris-Bruxelles, 1947 L'autre regard, Ed. Le Cri/Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises, Brussels, 2004. A collection of her columns from Le Soir.

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University of Liège
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University of Liège
Awards
Bordin Prize; Officer of the Walloon Merit
Also known as
Marie Curvers-Delcourt

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Who was Marie Delcourt?

Belgian classical scholar and historian (1891–1979)

When was Marie Delcourt born?

Marie Delcourt was born on 18 November 1891.

When did Marie Delcourt die?

Marie Delcourt died on 11 February 1979 in Liège.

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Marie Delcourt was a university teacher, historian of religion, classical philologist, historian of classical antiquity, women's rights activist and translator.

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Marie Delcourt was Belgian.

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