Jean Gascou (16 May 1945,

Cambrai Cambrai (, ; pcd, Kimbré; nl, Kamerijk), formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department and in the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, regio ...

) is a French scholar and

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

. He is a professor at the

University Paris-Sorbonne Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...

, director of the Institute of papyrology and a member of the

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Selected publications

Jean Gascou is the author of several works: * * * * *

References

External links

Jean Gascou
on data.bnf.fr
''Fiscalité et société en Égypte byzantine''

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gascou, Jean French papyrologists French Byzantinists École Normale Supérieure alumni People from Cambrai 1945 births Living people Academic staff of Paris-Sorbonne University