Georges Daux

Georges Daux edited the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique when it printed Vassos Karageorghis's yearly Chronique of Cypriot excavations. He was born at Bastia on 21 September 1899 and died in Paris on 23 December 1988⁶. Hector Catling calls him a former Director of the Ecole francaise d'Athenes and editor of the Bulletin de correspondance hellenique⁴.

In 1951, as Director of the French School, he invited Jean Bérard on a mission to Athens and Crete, which Bérard cited in June of that year to explain a delay to the planned soundings at Nea Paphos. In May 1952 Daux and his wife were in Cyprus, staying at the Ledra Palace, and sent greetings to Bérard through Porphyrios Dikaios¹.

In 1958 Karageorghis, then Assistant Curator at Nicosia, noticed that all the annual reports on Cypriot archaeology were in English and proposed a French Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre to Daux. Catling says instead that Daux invited Karageorghis to write it. It appeared in the Bulletin every year to 1988/89, written by Karageorghis and translated by his wife Jacqueline Karageorghis, with Daux receiving the text each March^2,3,4. Karageorghis records that Daux read the whole 1964 Chronique and looked after its presentation⁵. The Etudes chypriotes series began under Daux's direction with Olivier Masson's Les inscriptions chypriotes syllabiques (1961); Karageorghis's Nouveaux documents followed in 1965^2,3.