Noël Duval (24 December 1929,
Le Chesnay
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– 12 December 2018, Paris) was a French archaeologist.
Biography
In 1953 Duval started working as a researcher and for three consecutive years worked at the
Roman Historical Institute. He was a member of
French National Centre for Scientific Research
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,
École du Louvre
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and worked at the
University of Nantes
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,
Lille
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and
Fribourg
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in Switzerland. In 1960 he became interested in both Hispanic and Catalan archaeology and by 1976 he became a professor at
Paris-Sorbonne University
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where he taught
Late Antiquity
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and
Byzantinian Art in Middle Ages. He worked there until 1992 and then became a member of
Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres in Barcelona, Spain. Since 1990, he focused himself on
Augustan History
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and by 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the
University of Geneva
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. Later in his career he taught archaeology at the
Autonomous University of Barcelona
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, the university consists of 57 departments in the experimental, lif ...
. Duval was elected as an emeritis professor fellow at the
University of Paris
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in 2007.
Duval married historian
Yvette Duval in 1954.
Honours and awards
Honours
* Knight of the
Legion of Honour
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(
France
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)
* Officier of the
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* Commander of the
Ordre des Palmes Académiques
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)
* Gold Medal of the city of
Split
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Arts, enter ...
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)
* Medal of the city of
Sremska Mitrovica
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Awards
*
CNRS
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Silver Medal
*
CNRS
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Bronze Medal
* Bronze and Silver Medals of the
Académie d'architecture
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* Prize of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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History ...
* Frend Medal of Christian Archeology of the
Society of Antiquaries of London
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Acknowledgement
* Member of the
Pontifical Academy of Archaeology
* Member of the
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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* Member of the
Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona
* Member of the
German Archaeological Institute
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Status, tasks and ...
* Member of the
Society of Antiquaries of London
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* Associate Member of the
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...
Honorary degrees
* 1994 :
University of Geneva
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* 2000 :
Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Main publications
* ''Les églises africaines à deux absides'', 2 vols, Rome, CEFR, 1971 and 1973
* ''Les ruines de Sufetula-Sbeitla'' (with F. Baratte), Tunis, éd. STD, 1973
* ''Haïdra, les ruines d'Ammaedara'' (with F. Baratte), Tunis, éd. STD, 1974
* ''Haïdra I. Les inscriptions chrétiennes d'Haïdra'' (with F. Prévot), Rome, CEFR, 1975
* ''Catalogue des mosaïques romaines et paléochrétiennes du Musée du Louvre'' (with F. Baratte), Rome, CEFR, 1978
* ''Sirmium VII et VIII'' (Direction with V. Popovic), Rome, CEFR, 1977 and 1978
* C''atalogue des mosaïques romaines et paléochrétiennes du Musée du Louvre'' (with F. Baratte), Paris, Réunions des musées nationaux, 1978
* ''Haïdra II, L'église I dite de Melléus''
nder the direction Rome, CEFR, 1981
* ''Inventaire des basiliques chrétiennes d'Afrique du Nord : Inventaire des monuments de l'Algérie'', 2 vols (with Isabelle Gui et Jean-Pierre Caillet), Paris, Collection des Études augustiniennes, 1992
* ''Salona I, recherches archéologiques franco-croates à
Salone
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nder the direction Rome, CEFR, 1994
*''Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France'', Paris, Éditions A et J Picard, 1995
*''Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France II'', Paris, Éditions A and J Picard, 1996
*''Salona II'', Rome, CEFR, 1996
*''Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France III'', Paris, Éditions A and J Picard, 1998
* ''Les mosaïques funéraires d'une église de Pupput'' (with Aïcha Ben Abed), Paris, CNRS, 1998
*''Salona III'', Rome, CEFR, 2000
*''L'Historiae Augustae Colloquium I de la nouvelle série'', (with G. Bonamente), Bari, Edipuglia, 2000
* ''Actes de la journée d'études sur les églises de Jordanie et leurs mosaïques''
nder the direction Beirut, Institut français du Proche-Orient, 200313
* ''Haïdra IV, L'église de Candidus ou des martyrs de la persécution de Dioclétien'' (co-edition with F. Baratte), Rome, CEFR, 2010
* ''La nouvelle Carte des voies romaines de l'Est de l'Africa dans l'Antiquité Tardive d'après les travaux de P. Salama'' (Direction with
Claude Lepelley
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and
Jehan Desanges), Turnhout, Brepols, 2010
* ''Caričin Grad III. L'Acropole et ses monuments''
nder the direction Rome, CEFR, 2010
* ''Salona IV : Recherches archéologiques franco-croates à Salone, Inscriptions de Salone chrétienne, IVe-VIIe siècles (vol. I et II)'', (with Emilio Marin, Jean-Pierre Caillet, Denis Feissel, Nancy Gauthier et Françoise Prévot), Rome, CEFR, 2010
* ''Basiliques chrétiennes d'Afrique du Nord. II, Monuments de la Tunisie'' (with François Baratte & Fathi Bejaoui), Bordeaux, Ausonius, 2015
See also
*
Asterius chapel
References
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1929 births
2018 deaths
Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Barcelona
Academic staff of Nantes University
French scholars of Roman history
French epigraphers
20th-century French archaeologists
Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
21st-century French archaeologists
Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Archaeologists of the Punic world
Corresponding fellows of the British Academy