Pierre Wuilleumier (1 January 1904 – 20 November 1979) was a 20th-century French scholar, normalian, professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne and archaeologist.
Biography Pierre Wuilleumier held the chair of National Antiquities in Lyon from 1933. In 1940, he was responsible for the excavations of the ancient Theatre of Fourvière on the hill of Fourvière with Amable Audin. From 1941 to 1954, he directed two constituencies of Historic Antiquities in the Lyon region. He contributed to the magazine Gallia since its creation in 1942, in which he regularly published the results of excavations on the hill of Fourvière and the Lyon region.Paul-Marie Duval, Pierre Wuilleumier (1904 -1979), Gallia. Tome 38 fascicule 2, 1980, p. 239 Read online
In 1947, he led the excavations of the so-called in Lyon.
Publications Publication and translation of Latin authors He completed the publication and translation of Latin authors in the "Collection des Universités de France" by the éditions des Belles Lettres
Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute Tacitus, Histoires, in collaboration with Henri Le Bonniec and Joseph Hellegouarc'h Tacite, Annales, in collaboration with Henri Le Bonniec and Joseph Hellegouarc'h
Archaeological publications 1939: Tarente, des origines à la conquête romaine, éd. De Boccard, Paris 1947: Le cloître de Saint-André-le-Bas à Vienne, in collaboration with J. Déniau, Jules Formigé, E.-L. Albrand, éditions Audin, Lyon, 55 p., 8 planches hors-texte 1951: Fouilles de Fourvière à Lyon, preface by Édouard Herriot, series Fouilles et monuments archéologiques en France métropolitaine, CNRS, 85 pages, 8 plans, 20 planches hors texte 1953: Lyon, métropole des Gaules, Belles Lettres, 118 p. Read online 1963: Inscriptions latines des Trois Gaules, CNRS, 256 pages, XVIIe supplément à la revue Gallia 1964: Laet Sigfried, minutes of reading published in L'antiquité classique, volume 33, fasc. 1. , 1964: Amable Audin, minutes of reading published in Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, vol. 42, n° 1, .
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External links Pierre Wuilleumier (1904-1979) on data.bnf.fr Pierre Wuilleumier, Fouilles de Fourvière à Lyon on Persée