Louis Sigismond Isaac Halphen (4 February 1880,
Paris
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– 7 October 1950,
Paris
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) was a French medieval specialist and the author of many important books over a long career. He was noteworthy as the editor of a modern edition of the famous classic
Einhard's "Vie de
Charlemagne
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" (Paris, 1947), He was also known as being one of the general editors of the monumental series ''Peuples et civilisations''.
Louis Halphen was born in
Paris
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to mathematician
Georges Henri Halphen
Georges-Henri Halphen (; 30 October 1844, Rouen – 23 May 1889, Versailles) was a French mathematician. He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic ...
. He married Germaine Weill, the daughter of
Mathieu Weill
Isaac Mathieu Weill (24 May 1851 – 5 November 1939) was a French mathematician and principal of the Collège Chaptal.
Biography
Mathieu Weill was born to a Jewish family in Haguenau, the son of Valentine and Isidore Weill, a mathematics teache ...
, in 1910, with whom he had two children:
Étienne
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Scientists and inventor ...
and Geneviève.
Selected Published Books
* ''Le comté d'Anjou au XIe siècle'', 1906
** review by S Fanning in Speculum, 1985 "...The essential works on Anjou in this period are Louis Halphen, Le comte d'Anjou au XIe siecle (Paris, 1906)
JSTOR* ''La Conquête romaine'' (with A Piganiol,& P Sagnac (1926) - Presses universitaires de France
* ''Charlemagne et l'empire carolingien'', 1947
**translated into English as ''Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire'', (1977) North-Holland Pub. Co
**translated into Spanish as ''Carlomagno y el imperio carolingio'', Unión Tipográfica Editorial Hispano Americana (1955)
* ''Études sur l'administration de Rome au Moyen Âge (751-1252)'', (1972) Multigrafica Editrice
* ''À travers l'histoire du Moyen âge'', (1950) - Presses universitaires de France
References
* S. Woolf, "Europe and its Historians" Contemporary European History (2003), 12: 323-337 Cambridge University Press
* Edward R. Tannenbaum "French Scholarship in Modern European History: New Developments since 1945" The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep., 1957), pp. 246–25
JSTOR*''Mélanges d'histoire du Moyen âge, dédiés à la mémoire de Louis Halphen'' : Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1951.
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Biographical note/Publications
French medievalists
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
1880 births
1950 deaths
Lycée Hoche alumni
École Nationale des Chartes alumni
French male non-fiction writers
20th-century French historians
20th-century French male writers
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