Germaine Rouillard

Germaine Rouillard (4 August 1888 – 1 September 1946) was a 20th-century French byzantinist specializing in philology.

Biography
The daughter of a wealthy and educated pharmacist of Argenton-sur-Creuse where she spent her childhood, she was well educated in Indre and Paris then was a librarian at the Sorbonne. In 1923 she obtained her State doctorate in literature at the Faculté of Paris. She was never elected a female professor at the Sorbonne but became the first woman to hold a chair, that of Byzantine philology at the École pratique des hautes études where she would make all her academic career. She was specialized in papyrology and Byzantine philology.

Selected works

 * 1923: L'administration civile de l’Égypte byzantine, preface by Charles Diehl, 268 p., P. Gauthier, Paris, doctorate thesis
 * 1923: Les papyrus grecs de Vienne, inventaire des documents publiés, H. Champion, Paris, complementary thesis
 * 1937: Actes de Lavru, édition diplomatique et critique by Germaine Rouillard and Paul Collomp, in Archives de l'Athos, vol. I, (p. 897–1178), L. Lethielleux, Paris.
 * 1932: Les taxes maritimes et commerciales d'après les actes de Patnos et de Lavru, in Mélanges Charles Diehl, tome I, (p. 277–289)
 * 1953: La vie rurale dans l'Empire byzantin, 207 p., Adrien Maisonneuve, Paris, (posthumous).