Jean-Pierre Vernant Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jean-Pierre Vernant (January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007) was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars. He was an honorary professor at the Collège de France.
During WW2, he was the leader of the Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur in the South-West of France, a branch of the French Résistance.
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Between 1975 and 1984, Professor at the Collège de France. He had the chair of "Compared Studies of Ancient Religions." Since 1985, honorary Professor at the Collège de France.