Noël Duval (24 December 1929,

Le Chesnay Le Chesnay () is a former commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, fr ...

– 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 The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engi ...

École du Louvre The École du Louvre () is a selective institution of higher education and prestigious ''grande école'' located in the Aile de Flore of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. It is dedicated to the study of archaeology, art history, anthropology ...

and worked at the

University of Nantes Nantes University () is a public university located in the city of Nantes, France. In addition to the several campuses scattered in the city of Nantes, there are two satellite campuses located in Saint-Nazaire and La Roche-sur-Yon. The university ...

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and

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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 Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; ) was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Paris. In 2018, it m ...

where he taught

Late Antiquity Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was popularized by Peter Brown (historian), Peter Brown in 1971, and this periodiza ...

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 The ''Historia Augusta'' (English: ''Augustan History'') is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers from 117 to 284. Supposedly modeled on the sim ...

and by 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the

University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public university, public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by French theologian John Calvin as a Theology, theological seminary. It rema ...

. Later in his career he taught archaeology at the

Autonomous University of Barcelona The Autonomous University of Barcelona (; Spanish: ; ; UAB) is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. , the university consists of 57 departments in the experimental, lif ...

. Duval was elected as an emeritis professor fellow at the

University of Paris The University of Paris (), known Metonymy, metonymically as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated wit ...

in 2007. Duval married historian Yvette Duval in 1954.

Honours and awards

Honours

* Knight of the

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(

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) * Officier of the

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* Commander of the

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(

) * Gold Medal of the city of

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) * Medal of the city of

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)

Awards

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

Silver Medal *

Bronze Medal * Bronze and Silver Medals of the

Académie d'architecture An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

* Prize of the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres). History ...

* Frend Medal of Christian Archeology of the

Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

Acknowledgement

* Member of the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology * Member of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (; , SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters (, DSS). The Academy's membership has included Nobel Prize, Nobel la ...

* Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona * Member of the

German Archaeological Institute The German Archaeological Institute (, ''DAI'') is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields). The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office, Federal Foreign Office of Germany. Status, tasks and ...

* Member of the

* Associate Member of the

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...

Honorary degrees

* 1994 :

* 2000 :

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

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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

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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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duval, Noel 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