Archaeologist Christian Goudineau passed away on Wednesday May 9, 2018. Tribute and brief look back at the career of this fantastic researcher who will have inspired a whole generation of scientists.
Death of archaeologist, writer and historian Christian Goudineau.
French archeology is in mourning. Christian Goudineau left us this Wednesday, May 9, 2018, at the age of 79. This father of five children, a great specialist in the Gallic and Gallo-Roman worlds, was a major figure in European archaeological research. On social networks, the tributes of his peers and students are multiplying, praising the generosity of the man, his erudition and his great talents as popularizers.
Born on April 5, 1939, Christian Goudineau, aggregation of classical letters in 1962 and course at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in rue d'Ulm between 1959 and 1963, joined the French School of Rome. He stayed there from 1965 to 1968 before joining the University of Provence in Aix where he taught until 1984. Director of Historical Antiquities of the Côte d'Azur from 1969 to 1982, he took over the excavations of Vaison-la-romaine . In 1984, appointed professor at the Collège de France, he took over the chair of National Antiquity created in 1905 by Camille Jullian. At the same time, he became President of the Scientific Council of the European Archaeological Center of Mont-Beuvray, on the Aedui oppidum of Bibracte, proclaimed a site of national interest in 1985 by François Mitterrand. Christian Goudineau retired from this last responsibility in 2001 and gave up his chair at the Collège de France in 2010.
Author of research dissertations and popular works, Christian Goudineau has also dabbled in fiction with works such as "The Trial of Valérius Asiaticus" , his latest book. He gave Science et Avenir an interview in 2007. All our thoughts in writing go to his loved ones and his family.