Background
Auguste Bouché-Leclercq was born in 1842 at Francières, Oise as son of Louis-Thomas Bouché and Marie-Joséphine Leclercq.
Auguste Bouché-Leclercq was born in 1842 at Francières, Oise as son of Louis-Thomas Bouché and Marie-Joséphine Leclercq.
He was educated at seminaries and took his school-leaving exam in 1861 in Paris.
Later he travelled as private tutor several months through Italian and German cities. In 1866 he was grammar school teacher at Meaux. In 1872 he received his doctorate in philosophy and was from 1873-1878 professor of ancient literature at the philosophical faculty of Montpellier.
He retired in 1918 and died in 1923 at Nogent-sur-Marne.
Bouché-Leclercq’s research centred on the ancient history of religion and the history of Hellenism. He wrote important works about the Ptolemaic dynasty and the Seleucid Empire and translated the works of German historians into French, for example 1883-1885 the Geschichte des Hellenismus by Johann Gustav Droysen.
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.