Jacques Brunschwig

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Jacques Brunschwig, born 27 April 1929 in Paris 17 and died 16 April 2010 in Antony (Hauts-de-Seine), was a French academic, historian of philosophy, philologist and translator. He was the son of the École polytechnique graduate Robert Brunschwig (1893-1939) and Isabelle Vidal-Naquet (1898-1954), aunt of Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930-2006), with whom he began his reading of ancient authors. For most of the Second World War, his family lived with those of his maternal uncles, Lucien and Georges, first in Fouesnant (Finistère) from July 1939 to June 1940, then in Marseille; he completed his secondary education at the lycée in Quimper and then at the lycée Périer.