Vincent Lemire (born 1973) is a French
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...
.
In 1998 Lemire obtained the
Agrégation
In France, the ''agrégation'' () is a competitive examination for civil service in the French public education system. Candidates for the examination, or ''agrégatifs'', become ''agrégés'' once they are admitted to the position of ''professe ...
for History.
He received his doctorate in 2006 with his work ''La Soif de Jerusalem'' (lit. "The Thirst of Jerusalem"), which was published as a book in 2011.
His book ''Jerusalem 1900'', published in 2013, was translated into several languages.
Lemire works as lecturer at the
University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
The Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, or commonly known as UPEM, was a French university, in the . The main campus was located at Champs-sur-Marne. In 2020, UPEM merged with other facilities in the Descartes Campus to become Gustave Eiffel ...
and director of the European Open Jerusalem project, funded by the
European Research Council
The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...
.
Lemire's research topics are the
History of the Middle East
The Middle East, interchangeable with the Near East, is home to one of the Cradles of Civilization and has seen many of the world's oldest cultures and civilizations. The region's history started from the earliest human settlements and continues ...
, in particular
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
and its
Moroccan Quarter
The Mughrabi Quarter ( ar, حارَة المَغارِبة ''Hārat al-Maghāriba'', he, שכונת המוגרבים, ''Sh'khunat HaMughrabim'') or Maghrebi Quarter was a neighbourhood in the southeast corner of the Old City of Jerusalem, est ...
, and the history of the French
slum
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inh ...
s from the 1930s to the 1970s.
He also deals with the
History of photography
The history of photography began in remote antiquity with the discovery of two critical principles: camera obscura image projection and the observation that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. There are no artifacts or de ...
.
Awards
In 2013 Lemire was awarded the Prix
Augustin Thierry
Augustin Thierry (or ''Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry''; 10 May 179522 May 1856) was a French historian. Although originally a follower of Henri de Saint-Simon, he later developed his own approach to history. A committed liberal, his approach ...
for his book ''Jérusalem 1900. La ville sainte à l'âge des possibles.''
Lemire, Katell Berthelot, Julien Loiseau and Yann Potin received the Prix Pierre Lafue and the Prix Sophie Barluet for their book ''Jérusalem, Histoire d’une ville-monde, des origines à nos jours'' in 2017.
Publications
* ''Jérusalem 1900. La ville sainte à l’âge des possibles'', Points, 2016, , this book has been translated into English, Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese
* ''Jerusalem, histoire d'une ville-monde des origines a nos jours: Histoire d'une ville-monde, des origines à nos jours'', Editions Flammarion, 2016, (French)
* ''Révolutions - Quand les peuples font l'histoire'', BELIN, 2017, , with Mathilde Larrère, Félix Chartreux, Maud Chirio, Eugénia Paleraki (French)
* ''La Soif de Jérusalem: Essai d’hydrohistoire (1840–1948)'', Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2011,
download, pdf(French)
* ''Across the Archives: New Sources on the Ethiopian Christian Community in Jerusalem, 1840–1940'', with Stéphane Ancel, in Jerusalem Quarterly, Vol 71, 201
online, pdf* ''Ouvrir les archives d’une ville fermée?'', université Paris-Est, Marne-la-Vallée, 2015
online, pdf* ''Publishing Jerusalem's Ottoman Municipal Archives (1892–1917): A Turning Point for the City's Historiography'', with Yasemin Avci und Falestin Naili, in Jerusalem Quarterly, Vol 60, 201
online, pdf* ''The Awakening of Palestinian Hydropolitical Consciousness: The Artas- Jerusalem Water Conflict of 1925'', in Jerusalem Quarterly, Vol 48, 201
online, pdf
External links
*
References
[Vincent Lemire, Research area, publications]
in crfj.org. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
in crfj.org. Retrieved May 26, 2020.[Vincent Lemire, CV, publications]
in acp.u-pem.fr. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
[Vincent Lemire, Open Jerusalem]
in openjerusalem.org. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
[Les Rendez-vous de l’histoire, Prix Augustin Thierry, Lauréats 2009/2017]
in rdv-histoire.com. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
[le Prix Pierre Lafue]
in fondationpierrelafue.org. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
[Prix Sophie Barluet]
in institutdiderot.fr. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
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Living people
1973 births
21st-century French historians