Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard (born 16 April 1949) is a French historian of modern Protestantism and honorary
docent at the
Faculté de théologie protestante de Paris. She is vice-president of the
Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français
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and a member of the
Comité consultatif national d'éthique pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé (2013-2017).
Life
Born in
Poitiers
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, she and the magistrate
Irène Carbonnier were both daughters of lawyer
Jean Carbonnier
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Life and career
Jean Carbonnier was the son of Fernand Carbonnier and Dany Daniel. He marr ...
and Madeleine Hugues, the latter being a granddaughter of
Edmond Hugues, founder of the
Musée du Désert
In 1974 she gained a doctorate in the third cycle of the history of philosophy at the
université Paris IV with a thesis entitled ''Émigration et sécession pour cause religieuse, étude de philosophie politique'' (''Emigration and secession for religious reasons, a study of political philosophy''). She then became a curator at the
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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(1976-1986) before starting a teaching and research career in the
faculté de théologie protestante de Paris () (1986-2012). She thus coordinated the activities of the ''Groupe de recherches en histoire des protestantismes'' and in 2015 became an associate member of the Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes.
She is also assistant-curator at the
Musée du Désert, the main museum of French Protestantism, located at
Mas Soubeyran in
Mialet, as well as vice-president of the
Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français
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Publications
* ''Une histoire des protestants en France : XVI
e – XX
e siècles'', avec Patrick Cabanel, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1998
* ''Comprendre la révolte des camisards'', Rennes : Éd. Ouest-France, 2008
* ''Jean Calvin, une vie'', Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2009
* ''La révolte des camisards'', Rennes, Éd. Ouest-France, 2012
* with
Jean Baubérot, ''Histoire des Protestants : Une minorité en France'' (XVI
e – XXI
e siècle), Paris, Ellipses, 2016, 576 p. (ISBN 978-2-340-01521-0).
Bibliography
*
Patrick Cabanel, « Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard », in Patrick Cabanel and
André Encrevé (ed.s), ''Dictionnaire biographique des protestants français de 1787 à nos jours'', tome 1 : A-C, Les Éditions de Paris Max Chaleil, Paris, 2015,
External links
*
Biography on the 'Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes' site
References
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Living people
1949 births
People from Poitiers
20th-century French historians
21st-century French historians
Reformation historians
Historians of Protestantism
French women curators