Jean-Rémy Palanque

Jean-Rémy Palanque (7 March 1898 in Marseille – 2 June 1988, Aix-en-Provence) was a professor of ancient history at the Faculty of Letters at Montpellier, then at the University of Aix-en-Provence.

He was a member of the Institute, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (elected 15 November 1968) and president of the Society of Religious History of France. He contributed, with Henri-Irénée Marrou, to the renewal of the historical interpretation of the Roman Empire and early Christianity. He has translated and completed in French the works by the Austrian historian Ernst Stein, who was devoted to the history of late antiquity. He was awarded the Medal of the Resistance in 1945. He died in Aix-en-Provence on 2 June 1988 [1][2]

Works

References

  1. Palanque, Jean-Rémy » [archive], notice d'autorité personne n° FRBNF11918456, catalogue Bn-Opale Plus, Bibliothèque nationale de France, créée le 17 septembre 1975, modifiée le 4 octobre 2005.
  2. Jean Pouilloux, « Allocution à l'occasion du décès de M. Jean-Rémy Palanque, académicien libre », CRAI, 1988, 132-2, p. 428-431.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/3/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.