Gustave Bloch (21 July 1848 – 3 December 1923) was a French Jewish historian of

ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...

. He was the father of historian

Marc Bloch Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (; ; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on Medieval France ov ...

(1886–1944), who along with

Lucien Febvre Lucien Paul Victor Febvre (, ; 22 July 1878 – 11 September 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He was the initial editor of the '' Encyclopédie française'' together wi ...

(1878–1956) was co-founder of the École des Annales.

Biographical sketch

Born in

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, Bas-Rhin, Bloch received his agrégation in 1872, and during the following year began teaching classes in rhetoric at Lycée de

Besançon Besançon (, , , ; archaic german: Bisanz; la, Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzer ...

. In 1876, he became a lecturer, and several years later started work as a professor of Greek and Roman antiquities at the

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. Beginning in 1888, he taught history at the

École Normale Supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, S ...

, where he succeeded historian Paul Guiraud 850–1907). From 1904 to 1919, he was a professor of Roman history at the Faculté des lettres de Paris.

Selected writings

* "La République romaine. Les Conflits politiques et sociaux", in ''The Roman Republic. Political and Social Conflicts'' (1913). * "L'Empire romain. Evolution et décadence", in ''The Roman Empire. Evolution and Decadence'' (1922).

References

Rhetorical connections and networks in the nineteenth century
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Members of École Française d'Athenes 1848 births 1923 deaths 19th-century French historians 20th-century French historians French scholars of Roman history University of Lyon faculty École Normale Supérieure faculty École Normale Supérieure alumni People from Bas-Rhin Officiers of the Légion d'honneur {{France-historian-stub