Jean Glénisson (25 January 1921 – 9 October 2010) was a French historian, archivist and paleographer.[1]
Jean Glénisson | |
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| Born | 25 January 1921 |
| Died | 9 October 2010 (aged 89) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian Archivist Paleographer |
Career
edit- Degree in literature at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, (1940)
- Studies at the École nationale des chartes
- Archivist paleographer (1946)
- Member of the École française de Rome (1946–1948)
- Curator at the Archives nationales (1950–1952), responsible for the Trésor des Chartes
- Head of the Archives of the French Equatorial Africa library in Brazzaville (1952–1957)
- Professor of historiography at the University of São Paulo in Brazil
- Chargé de conférences (1959–1963) then director of studies at the VIe section of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) (1963)[2][3]
- Director of the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (1964 to 1986)
- Member of the International Committee of Latin paleography, successor of Jeanne Vielliard as director of the IRHT (1966–1992).[4]
