Paul Lemerle (; 22 April 1903 – 17 July 1989) was a
French Byzantinist
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, born in
Paris
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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
Dijon
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(1942–1947), at the ''
École Pratique des Hautes Études
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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
Philippi
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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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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