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Paul Lemerle (; 22 April 1903 – 17 July 1989) was a French
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, born in
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.


Biography

Lemerle taught at the '' École française d'Athènes'' (1931–1941), at the ''Faculté des Lettres'' of the University of Burgundy at
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(1942–1947), at the ''
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'' (1947–1968), at the Sorbonne (1958–1967) and at the '' Collège de France'' (1967–1973). He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1945, on the city of
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and eastern Macedonia during the Byzantine period. He was the founding president of the International Association of Byzantine Studies (AIEB). He died in Paris.


Works

* ''Le style byzantin.'' 1943. * ''Philippes et la Macédoine orientale à l'époque chrétienne et byzantine.'' Thèse de doctorat, Paris, 1945. * ''L'émirat d'Aydin, Byzance et l'Occident.'' 1957. * ''Histoire de Byzance.'' 1960. Translated into English as ''A history of Byzantium.'' 1964. * ''Élèves et professeurs à Constantinople au Xe siècle.'' 1969. * ''Le premier humanisme byzantin.'' 1971. Translated into English as ''Byzantine humanism, the first phase.'' 1986. Translated into Russian as ''Первый византийский гуманизм.'' 2012. * ''Cinq études sur le XIe siècle Byzantin.'' 1977. * ''Le monde de Byzance.'' 1978. * ''Les plus anciens recueils des miracles de Saint Démétrius et la pénétration des Slaves dans les Balkans.'' 1979. * ''The agrarian history of Byzantium from the origins to the twelfth century.'' 1979. * ''Essais sur le monde byzantin.'' 1980.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lemerle, Paul 1903 births 1989 deaths 20th-century French historians 20th-century French male writers Corresponding fellows of the British Academy Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America French Byzantinists French male non-fiction writers Writers from Paris