Pierre Demargne

Pierre Demargne (8 February 1903 – 13 December 2000) was a French historian and archaeologist.

Biography Pierre Demargne went to school at l'École normale supérieure, where he took and passed the agrégation de lettres exam.

He studied archaeology and became a professor at the University of Grenoble in 1933 before moving to the University of Strasburg in 1937. Both he and his father Joseph were members of the French School at Athens.

Overall, Pierre Demargne was a man of letters; however, he was also a fieldworker and renowned scientific expert, who was respected by the scientific community around the world. The majority of his career took place during a pivotal period in archaeological methods: from traditional archaeology, which was inspired from ancient texts and the hopes of finding treasure; to the more literary and artistic approaches of archaeology of the 17th and 18th centuries, which was inherited from the cabinets of curiosities; the archaeology of Pierre Demargne's time was changing to ever-increasing modern methodologies and tools and also (as budgets decreased) to more systematic and rigorous field methods.

Honours He was created a Knight in the Royal Order of George I.

Publications La Crète dédalique: études sur les origines d'une renaissance (1947) Naissance de l'art grec (1974 ; 1985).