Émilienne Demougeot (1910, Bourges – 19 June 1994, Montpellier) was a French

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

, a specialist of

Late Antiquity Late antiquity is the time of transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, generally spanning the 3rd–7th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin. The popularization of this periodization in English ha ...

and

Early Christianity Early Christianity (up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325) spread from the Levant, across the Roman Empire, and beyond. Originally, this progression was closely connected to already established Jewish centers in the Holy Land and the Jewis ...

. She was one of the first women professors of history at a French university, and the first woman

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at the Faculty of Letters at the

University of Montpellier The University of Montpellier (french: Université de Montpellier) is a public research university located in Montpellier, in south-east of France. Established in 1220, the University of Montpellier is one of the oldest universities in the wor ...

Life

She attended elementary and high school in Guadeloupe from 1917 to 1922, then in

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in 1925–1926. Once a history teacher, she taught in high school before the war, and then as an assistant at the

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. She defended her thesis, ''De l’Unité à la division de l’Empire romain. Essai sur le gouvernement impérial (395-410)'', in 1949. She was a professor of ancient history at the Faculty of Letters of Montpellier from 1957 to her retirement in 1978. She won the Prix Thérouanne in 1952 for her work, ''De l’unité à la division de l'Empire Romain''. With the prize she was awarded 2,000 francs. She left a great work especially the monumental ''Formation de l’Europe et les invasions barbares''. She bequeathed her library to the library of ancient history of the Paul-Valéry University in Montpellier.

References

Bibliography

*1988: *1982: ''Le Colosse de Barletta'', '' Mélanges de l'École française de Rome''. Antiquité, T. 94, n°2, 1982,
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*1980: in collaboration with Michel Christol,

André Chastagnol André Chastagnol (21 February 1920 – 2 September 1996) was a French historian, specializing in Latin epigraphy and literature. After teaching at the Universities of Algiers, Rennes and Paris-X, he finished his career as a professor at the ...

, ''Mélanges de numismatique, d'archéologie et d'histoire : Offerts à Jean Lafaurie'', Société française de numismatique, 286 pages *1969:
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*1969: *1969: *1968: ''Remarques sur les débuts du culte impérial en Narbonnaise'' (Offprint from Provence historique, v. 18, fasc. 71) [The Sackler Library, University of Oxford, has a signed copy of this text) *1954: 'A propos des interventions du pape Innocent Ier dans la politique séculière' (Presses Universitaires de France) Revue historique [offprint] pp. 23–38 *1953: ''Notes sur l'évacuation des troupes romaines en Alsace au début du Ve siècle'' (Delle: [Institut des hautes études alsaciennes]) *1951: ''De l'unité à la division de l'Empire romain'', Paris, Adrien-Maisonneuve, 618 pages

External links

Émilienne Demougeot on CERCAM
{{DEFAULTSORT:Demougeot, Emilienne 20th-century French historians French women historians French scholars of Roman history 1910 births Writers from Bourges 1994 deaths French classical scholars Women classical scholars Academic staff of the University of Montpellier 20th-century French women writers