Michel Kaplan
Born (1946-04-15) 15 April 1946 (age 78)
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Byzantinist, historian
Years active1976–2015

Michel Kaplan (born 15 April 1946) is a French medieval historian, docteur d'État, professor emeritus and former president of Pantheon-Sorbonne University.[1] He is a Byzantinist specialising in history of mentalities, rural space and hagiography of the Eastern Roman Empire.[2]

Career

In his early years, Kaplan followed the courses taught by Paul Lemerle.[3] He began his career as an assistant professor and then lecturer at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I), where he defended his thèse d'état (doctoral dissertation) Les hommes et la terre à Byzance du VIe au XIe siècle : propriété et exploitation du sol in 1987. He then became a professor of medieval history at Paris I since 1988 and had been president of this university from 1999 to 2004.[4] Since 2003, his research had encompassed the history of Byzantine mentalities.[5] He retired from his job in 2015. On 13 November 2018, a lecture given by Kaplan took place at the Athens Concert Hall in Greece.[1]

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b "Michel Kaplan, Athens, November 13". ekathimerini.com. Kathimerini Publishing S.A. 11 November 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Le saint, le moine et le paysan : Mélanges d'histoire byzantine offerts à Michel Kaplan". editions-sorbonne.fr (in French). 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  3. ^ Bonnet, Sylvain (5 July 2017). "Le plus célèbre des historiens français de Byzance". salon-litteraire.linternaute.com (in French). Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  4. ^ "Curriculum vitae de Michel KAPLAN (Comité français des Études Byzantines)" (PDF). cfeb.org (in French). Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  5. ^ Kaplan, Michel (2003) [1991]. Tout l'or de Byzance. Collection "Découvertes Gallimard" (in French). Vol. 104 (6th ed.). Paris: Éditions Gallimard. p. 10. ISBN 978-2-07-053119-6. About the author