André Chastagnol (21 February 1920 – 2 September 1996) was a French historian, specializing in Latin

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

and

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. After teaching at the Universities of

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and Paris-X, he finished his career as a professor at the

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. His two theses were devoted to the ''

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''. He succeeded

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at the head of the Latin epigraphy seminar of the

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where

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, Xavier Loriot, and

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were among his students. His various works on the Lower Roman Empire and

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are authoritative. He was long interested in the ''

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'', of which he provided translation and helped to improve the study. His large personal library, bequeathed to the Sorbonne, is now incorporated into the . André Chastagnol was a member of the

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Selected works

André Chastagnol wrote about 200 books and articles devoted to general history, Gaul and

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, including: * ''La préfecture urbaine à Rome sous le Bas-Empire'' (''Publications de la Faculté des Lettres d'Alger.'' Vol. 34).

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, Paris 1960. * ''Les Fastes de la Préfecture de Rome au Bas-Empire'' (''Études prosopographiques.'' Band 2). Nouvelles Éditions Latines, Paris 1962. * ''Le Sénat romain sous le règne d'Odoacre. Recherches sur l'épigraphie du Colisée au Ve siècle'' (''.'' Series 3, vol. 3). Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1966. * ''Le Bas-Empire.'' Armand Colin, Paris 1969. 2. Auflage 1981 Antiquitas.'' Series 4, vol. 6). Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1970. * ''La fin du monde antique. De Stilicon à Justinien (V siècle et début VI). Recueil de textes présentés et traduits.'' Nouvelles Éditions Latines, Paris 1976. * ''L'Album municipal de Timgad'' (''Antiquitas.'' Series 3, vol. 22). Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1978. * ''L'évolution politique, sociale et économique du monde romain de Dioclétien à Julien. La mise en place du régime du Bas-Empire (284–363)'' (= ''Regards sur l'histoire.'' vol. 47). Société d'édition d'enseignement supérieur, Paris 1982. * ''L'Italie et l'Afrique au Bas-Empire. Études administratives et prosopographiques. Scripta varia.'' Presses universitaires, Lille 1987, . * ''Le Sénat romain a l'époque impériale. Recherches sur la composition de l'Assemblée et le statut de ses membres.''

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, Paris 1992. * ''Histoire auguste. Les empereurs romains des 2. et 3. siècles.'' Laffont, Paris 1994. * ''Aspects de l'antiquité tardive. Scripta varia II.'' L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 1994. * ''La Gaule romaine et le droit Latin. Recherches sur l'histoire administrative et sur la romanisation des habitants. Scripta varia III.'' De Boccard, Lyon 1995. * ''Le pouvoir impérial à Rome. Figures et commémorations. Scripta varia IV.'' published by Stéphane Benoist and Ségolène Demougin. Droz, Geneva 2008. A bibliography for the years 1950 to 1986 can be found in André Chastagnol: ''L'Italie et l'Afrique au Bas-Empire. Études administratives et prosopographiques. Scripta varia.'' Presses universitaires, Lille 1987, , (p. 11–21).

References

Bibliography

* . * Xavier Loriot, Daniel Nony, André Chastagnol (1920–1996), ', 152-6, 1997, (p. 5–8
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