Camille Jullian

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Camille Jullian
Born15 March 1859
Died12 December 1933(1933-12-12) (aged 74)
CitizenshipFrench
RelativesPhilippe Jullian (grandson)
Academic background
EducationÉcole normale supérieure
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Bordeaux
Collège de France
Notable worksHistoire de la Gaule (1907–1928)

Camille Jullian (15 March 1859 – 12 December 1933) was a French

historian of literature.[1]

A Professor of ancient history and classics at the

Académie française
in 1924.

Jullian is the author of a monumental Histoire de la Gaule, published in eight volumes between 1907 and 1928, which has influenced Celtic studies throughout the 20th century.[2][3][4]

Biography

Camille Louis Jullian was born on 15 March 1859 in

École Normale Supérieure, where he earned an agrégation in history and geography in 1880. Jullian was a member of the École française de Rome between 1880 and 1882. He became Doctor in Literature in March 1884.[5]

Jullian taught ancient history and classics at the

Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1926, and was elected to the Académie Française in 1924.[5]

Jullian at the Collège de France.

Jullian was involved with the controversy over the archaeological findings at Glozel in France; he was among those who believed the artefacts recovered were forgeries.[6]

He died on 12 December 1933 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. His body is interred at the Protestant cemetery in Bordeaux. [5]

Personal life

Jullian was a

Protestant. He held liberal and patriotic views.[5]

In April 1890, Jullian married Jeanne Azam, the daughter of Étienne Azam, Professor of Medicine, and Anne Rolland. They had a daughter named Suzanne.[5] The latter married a man named Simounet, a war veteran who ended his life in poverty; their son, the author Philippe Jullian, took instead his grandfather's name.[7]

Works

On Bordeaux and Gironde

  • Étude d'épigraphie bordelaise. Les Bordelais dans l'armée romaine. Notes concernant les inscriptions de Bordeaux extraites des papiers de M. de Lamontagne, 1884
  • Les antiquités de Bordeaux (Revue archéologique), 1885
  • Inscriptions romaines de Bordeaux, 1887-1890 [available online on the Cujas Library website: Vol. I, Vol. II]
  • Ausone et Bordeaux. Études sur les derniers temps de la Gaule romaine, 1893 Read online
  • Histoire de Bordeaux depuis les origines jusqu'en 1895, 1895 Read online
  • L'orientalisme à Bordeaux. Bordeaux: Feret. 1897. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2014.

Works on Gauls

  • De protectoribus et domesticis augustorum, 1883
  • Histoire des institutions politiques de l'ancienne France, de Fustel de Coulanges (posthumous edition of his works), 1890
  • Gallia, tableau sommaire de la Gaule sous la domination romaine, Hachette, 1892
  • Fréjus romain, 1886
  • Notes d'épigraphie, 1886
  • Les transformations politiques de l'Italie sous les empereurs romains, 43 av JC-330 après J.-C., 1884
  • Extraits des historiens du XIXe, publiés, annotés et précédés d'une introduction sur l'histoire de France, 1897
  • Inscriptiones Galliae narbonensis Latinae (CIL XII), en collaboration, 1899
  • Vercingétorix. Paris: Hachette. 1901. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  • La politique romaine en Provence (218-59 avant notre ère), 1901
  • Recherches sur la religion gauloise, 1903
  • Plaidoyer pour la préhistoire, 1907
  • Les anciens dieux de l'Occident, 1913
  • Les Paris des Romains. Les Arènes. Les Thermes, 1924
  • Histoire de la Gaule, rééd. Hachette, Coll. Références, 1993, 1270 pages, ()
  • Au seuil de notre histoire. Leçons faites au Collège de France, 1905–1930, 3 vol. 1930-1931
  • Les invasions ibériques en Gaule et l'origine de Bordeaux. Bordeaux: Imp. G. Gounouilhou. 1903. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2014.

Patriotic works

  • Le Rhin gaulois : le Rhin français, 1915
  • Pas de paix avec Hohenzollern. À un ami du front, 1918
  • La guerre pour la patrie, 1919
  • Aimons la France, conférences : 1914-1919, 1920
  • De la Gaule à la France. Nos origines historiques, 1922

References

  1. ^ Jullian, Camille (1859-1933). BNF.
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  5. ^ a b c d e Charle & Telkes 1988.
  6. ^ "Camille Jullian, historian, dead". New York Times. 13 December 1933. p. 23.
  7. ISSN 0028-7504
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