{{Short description|French linguist and archeologist (1929–2023)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Jacques Jarry | image = Photo de Jacques Jarry.jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Jarry in 2021 | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1929|10|17}} | birth_place = Niort, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2023|01|18|1929|10|17}} | death_place = Vouillé, Deux-Sèvres, France | other_names = | occupation = Linguist <br/> Archeologist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | education = École normale supérieure }}
'''Jacques Jarry''' (17 October 1929 – 18 January 2023) was a French linguist and archeologist.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12788046j|title=Jarry, Jacques (1929-....|work=Bibliothèque nationale de France|language=French}}</ref>
==Biography== Born in Niort on 17 October 1929, Jarry attended secondary school in Paris before entering the École normale supérieure in 1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.archicubes.ens.fr/lannuaire#annuaire_chercher?identite=Jarry|title=Jarry Jacques|work=École normale supérieure|language=French}}</ref> After that, he became an honorary member of the ''Institut du Caire'' and practiced archeology in France, Egypt, and the Middle East. A linguist and interpreter, he was fluent in fifteen languages: Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish, English, Arabic, Latin, ancient and modern Greek, and French.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}
During the 1960s, Jarry lived in Lebanon, where he married and saw the birth of his first child, a daughter. In 1965, he went to Egypt and participated in archeological excavations. He was then sent to Nigeria and Japan, where he settled and started a new family. He returned to France in 1975 and obtained a teaching position at the Lycée de Melle. He participated in excavations with secondary school students, including along the Niort ring road.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}
Jarry lived in France throughout the 1980s, where he carried out excavations along the A10 autoroute in Deux-Sèvres. During this era, he also spent time in Japan, where he worked as a professor and interpreter at Hiroshima University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ir.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/portal/main/bulletin/AN00000085.html|title=Jacques JARRY|work=Hiroshima University|language=French|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130423071318/http://ir.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/portal/main/bulletin/AN00000085.html|archivedate=23 April 2013}}</ref> He retired in 2009 and lived near Niort, where he wrote a book titled ''Inscriptions latines et étrangères du Poitou''. Throughout his career, his work on archeological excavations gained international renown.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/syria_0039-7946_1966_num_43_1_5840|title= Trouvailles épigraphiques à Saint-Syméon [article]|date=1966|journal=Persée|volume= 43|issue= 1|pages= 105–115|doi= 10.3406/syria.1966.5840|language=French|last1= Jarry|first1= Jacques}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/syria_0039-7946_1971_num_48_1_6228|title=A propos des trouvailles épigraphiques à Saint-Siméon-l'Alépin. [article]|date=1971|journal=Persée|volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=165–178 |doi=10.3406/syria.1971.6228 |language=French|last1=Nasrallah |first1=Joseph }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4197563|title=Trouvailles épigraphiques a Saint-Symeon|date=1966|jstor=4197563 |language=French|last1=Jarry |first1=Jacques |journal=Syria |volume=43 |issue=1/2 |pages=105–115 |doi=10.3406/syria.1966.5840 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> During his retirement, he examined the Glozel artifacts and shed new light on their linguistics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museedeglozel.com/Trad2000.htm|title=Jacques Jarry|work=Musée de Glozel|language=French|access-date=24 January 2023|archive-date=19 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100919080253/http://www.museedeglozel.com/Trad2000.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> He shared his findings at the science festival in Faye-l'Abbesse in 2009.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}
Jarry died in Vouillé, Deux-Sèvres on 18 January 2023, at the age of 93.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.avis-de-deces.net/avis-de-deces/nouvelle-aquitaine/deux-sevres-79/79230-vouille/2023-01-19-jarry-jacques-andre_50Wo1TQyrlKA4lW8BfIpRA/|title=Monsieur Jacques, André Jarry|work=avis-de-deces.net|language=French}}</ref>
==Publications== *''Hérésies et factions dans l'empire byzantin du IVe au VIIe siècle'' (1968) *''Hannya Shinghyo - The most famous of the sutras in Japan'' (2013)
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