Nicolas Vatin is a French

epigrapher 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 historian, specializing in the study of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

. His brother, , is a professor of

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

at the

Paris West University Nanterre La Défense Paris Nanterre University (), formerly University of Paris West, Paris-X and commonly referred to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. It is one of the most pres ...

Career

After studying at the

École normale supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

, Vatin obtained his

agrégation de lettres classiques In France, the () is the most competitive and prestigious examination for civil service in the French public education system. Successful candidates become ''professeurs agrégés'' () and are usually appointed as teachers in secondary schools or ...

in 1978. Between 1981 and 1983, Vatin was a resident at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul. As of 2016, Vatin is the director of research at the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

and director of studies at the Ecole pratique des hautes études.. Vatin's main research topics are the Ottoman Empire during the 15th-16th centuries, the history of the Eastern Mediterranean, the succession of

Ottoman sultans The sultans of the Ottoman Empire (), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental empire from its perceived inception in 1299 to Dissolution of the Ottoman Em ...

and cemeteries and death with translations and analysis of the Ottoman chronicles.

Bibliography

In 2015, he published a ''Dictionnaire de l'empire Ottoman XVe-XVIes'' with

François Georgeon François Georgeon (born 1942 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French historian specialising in the Ottoman Empire and contemporary Turkey. Biography A graduate from the École des Langues Orientales (Inalco), François Georgeon was an assistant in co ...

and

Gilles Veinstein The Gilles are the oldest and principal participants in the Carnival of Binche in Belgium. They go out on Shrove Tuesday from 4 a.m. until late hours and dance to traditional songs. Other cities, such as Ressaix, Leval, Buvrinnes, Épinois, ...

Works

*''L'ordre de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem, l'Empire ottoman et la Méditerranée orientale entre les deux sièges de Rhodes (1480-1522)'', Louvain-Paris, Peeters, 1994, 571 p. (traduction turque parue aux éditions Tarih Vakfi, Istanbul, 2004) *''Sultan Djem. Un prince ottoman dans l'Europe du XVe d'après deux sources contemporaines : Vâkı'ât-ı Sultân Cem'', œuvres de

Guillaume Caoursin Guillaume Caoursin, also called Gulielmus Caoursin (1430, Douai – 1501, Rhodes), was vice-chancellor of the Knights Hospitaller, Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, or Knights Hospitaller. He was an eye-witness to the Siege of Rhodes (1480), siege ...

, Ankara, Société Turque d'Histoire, 1997, 379 p. *''Rhodes et l'ordre de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem'', Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2000, 119 p. *avec Stéphane Yerasimos : ''Les cimetières dans la ville. Statuts, choix et organisation des lieux d'inhumation dans Istanbul intra-muros'', Paris-Istanbul, Institut Français d'´Études Anatoliennes - Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient (Maisonneuve), 2001, 270 p. *''Les Ottomans et l'occident XVe-XVIes)'', Istanbul, Isis, 2001, 196 p. (recueil d'articles) *with Gilles Veinstein : ''Le Sérail ébranlé. Essai sur les morts, dépositions et avènements des sultans ottomans. XIVe-XIXes'', Paris, Fayard, 2003, 523 p. *with Gilles Veinstein : ''Insularités ottomanes'', Paris, Institut français d'études anatoliennes et Maisonneuve & Larose, 2004, 310 p. (publication des actes d'un colloque) *with Edhem Eldem : ''L’épitaphe ottomane musulmane. Contribution à une histoire de la culture ottomane'', Paris-Louvain, Peeters, 2007, X + 377 p. *''Ferîdûn Bey. Les plaisants secrets de la campagne de Szigetvar''. Édition, traduction et commentaire desfolios 1 à 147 du Nüzhetü-l-esrâr-il-ahbâr der sefer-i Sigetvâr(ms. H 1339 de la Bibliothèque du Musée de Topkapi Sarayi, Vienne-Munster, LIT Verlag, 2010, 542 p. *with Gilles Veinsein et Elizabeth Zachariadou, ''Catalogue du fonds ottoman des archives du Monastère de Saint-Jean à Patmos''. ''Les vingt-deux premiers dossiers'', Athènes, Fondation Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut d’Études Byzantines, 2011, 973 p. *under the direction of Nicolas Vatin and Vincent Déroche, ''Constantinople 1453. Des Byzantins aux Ottomans'', Anacharsis, 2016, 1405 pages

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Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres). History ...

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