Jeanne-Marie Aynard, sometimes nicknamed Sam, born in Paris on September 19, 1907, and died in Laxou on January 24, 2002, was a French Assyriologist and philologist.
Jeanne-Marie Aynard | |
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| Born | 19 September 1907  17th arrondissement of Paris |
| Died | 24 January 2002 (aged 94) |
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Biography edit
She was born into a bourgeois Parisian family on September 19, 1907.[1][2] Her full name was Henriette Jeanne-Marie Aynard. Jeanne-Marie resided in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, 1 Boulevard Montmorency.[3] She won a radio music contest in 1927 organized by L'Écho de Paris.[3]
She pursued two bachelor's degrees simultaneously, one in law and the other in history, at the University of Paris.[1][2] In 1935, she took the oath and joined the Paris bar. However, this did not suit her, and she decided to turn to Assyriology.[2] She then attended the courses of Georges Contenau, André Parrot at the École du Louvre, and those of Jean Nougayrol and René Labat at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE).[1][2]
From 1947 onwards, she became a technical collaborator with Jean Nougayrol at the CNRS and collaborated with Agnès Spycket,[4] particularly in the management of the Assyrian collections at the Louvre.[2] She temporarily left Assyriology to become a journalist for L’Économie, but she quickly returned to Assyriology.[2] Within French orientalist scientific circles, she was nicknamed Sam, although the origin of such a nickname is not clear.[2]
In 1957, she defended her thesis at the EPHE, focusing on the prism F of Assurbanipal,[2][4] an object from the Louvre collections.[5] She collaborated with Adolf Leo Oppenheim on the interpretation of dreams in the ancient Near East.[6] Aynard also worked on the topic of the afterlife in Mesopotamian thought.[7]
She passed away on January 24, 2002, in Laxou, Meurthe-et-Moselle.[2]
Legacy edit
Serge Lebovici used her works as a source for his reflections on psychoanalysis.[6]
References edit
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i Spycket, Agnès (2001-03-01). "Jeanne-Marie Aynard (1907-2002):". Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale (1): 5–6. doi:10.3917/assy.093.0005. ISSN 0373-6032. Archived from the original on 2024-03-04. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
- ^ a b "Liste des gagnants du concours musical par T.S.F organisé par l' "Echo de Paris"". L'Echo de Paris. 18 August 1927. Archived from the original on 14 December 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- ^ a b Charpin, Dominique (2022). En quête de Ninive: Des savants français à la découverte de la Mésopotamie (1842‑1975) (in French). Les Belles Lettres. doi:10.4000/books.lesbelleslettres.28915. ISBN 978-2-251-45358-3. Archived from the original on 2023-10-23. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
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- ^ a b texte, Société psychanalytique de Paris Auteur du (1962-01-01). "Revue française de psychanalyse : organe officiel de la Société psychanalytique de Paris". Gallica. Archived from the original on 2024-03-04. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
- ^ "Dizionario della vita, morte ed eternità | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org (in French). Archived from the original on 2024-03-04. Retrieved 2024-03-04.