Paul Lemerle

French Byzantinist Paul Lemerle (French pronunciation: [pol ləmɛʁl]; 22 April 1903 – 17 July 1989) was a French Byzantinist, born in Paris. Biography Lemerle taught at the École française d'Athènes (1931–1941), at the Faculté des Lettres of the University of Burgundy at Dijon (1942–1947), at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (1947–1968), at the Sorbonne (1958–1967) and at the Collège de France (1967–1973). He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1945, on the city of Philippi and eastern Macedonia during the Byzantine period. He was the founding president of the International Association of Byzantine Studies (AIEB). He died in Paris. Works Le style byzantin. 1943. Philippes et la Macédoine orientale à l'époque chrétienne et byzantine. Thèse de doctorat, Paris, 1945. L'émirat d'Aydin, Byzance et l'Occident. 1957. Histoire de Byzance. 1960. Translated into English as A history of Byzantium. 1964. Élèves et professeurs à Constantinople au Xe siècle. 1969. Le premier humanisme byzantin. 1971. Translated into English as Byzantine humanism, the first phase. 1986. Translated into Russian as Первый византийский гуманизм. 2012. C