L an mil georges duby biography

French historian

Georges Duby (French:[ʒɔʁʒdybi]; 7 October 1919 – 3 December 1996) was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century^[1] and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s to his death.

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In 2019, his work was published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. He is one of the rare historians to benefit from such an honor, with Herodotus, Thucydides, Ibn Khaldoun, Froissart and Michelet.^[2]

Early life and education

Born in Paris to a family of craftsmen of Burgundian and Alsacian origin, Duby was initially educated in the field of historical geography before he moved into history.

He earned an undergraduate degree at Lyon in 1942 and completed his graduate thesis at the Sorbonne under Charles-Edmond Perrin in 1952.

Career

He taught first at Besançon and then at the Univer Georges Duby - Wikipedia, entziklopedia askea. JIKA