Claire Préaux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Claire Préaux

belgican classical scholar

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1904

Place of Birth: Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

Date of Death: 28-Mar-1979

Profession: university teacher, papyrologist, classical philologist, historian of classical antiquity

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Claire Préaux (1904-1979) was a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
In 1933, she was engaged by the Brooklyn Museum to translate the Greek ostrachæ of the Wilbour Collection.
In 1953 she was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences for "Philologie classique".