Jean Glénisson

Jean Glénisson (25 January 1921 – 9 October 2010) was a French historian, archivist and paleographer.[1]

Jean Glénisson
Born25 January 1921
Died9 October 2010(2010-10-09) (aged 89)
OccupationHistorian
Archivist
Paleographer

Career

  • Degree in literature at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, (1940)
  • Studies at the École nationale des chartes
  • Archivist paleographer (1946)
  • Member of the École française de Rome (1946–1948)
  • Curator at the Archives nationales (1950–1952), responsible for the Trésor des Chartes
  • Head of the Archives of the French Equatorial Africa library in Brazzaville (1952–1957)
  • Professor of historiography at the University of São Paulo in Brazil
  • Chargé de conférences (1959–1963) then director of studies at the VIe section of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) (1963)[2][3]
  • Director of the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (1964 to 1986)
  • Member of the International Committee of Latin paleography, successor of Jeanne Vielliard as director of the IRHT (1966–1992).[4]

A text editor, historian of medieval administration, including papal but also from Aunis and Saintonge, Glénisson also supported the introduction of laboratory techniques and computer analysis in order to study manuscript books.

gollark: It's the scanner block which does the actual scanning. According to my calculations you would actually only need 4 scanners for that.
gollark: That sounds like it would result in horrible lag issues.
gollark: Well, yes, but it didn't actually.
gollark: Apparently.
gollark: <@290217153293189120> I don't know if you realized it yet but that "krist miner" is a joke and does nothing.

References

  1. Marie-Laure Gobin, « Jean Glénisson n'est plus », Sud-Ouest, 13 octobre 2010, online
  2. Paul Gary, « Jean Glénisson »online
  3. Nicole Bertin, « Hommage au maître Jean Glénisson : Qu'un ami véritable est une douce chose ! », (1 February 2008) online
  4. Annales du CIPL online
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