Louis Bréhier

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Louis Bréhier
Born
Louis René Bréhier

(1868-08-05)5 August 1868
Brest, France
Died13 October 1951(1951-10-13) (aged 83)
Reims, France
EducationSorbonne
OccupationHistorian
RelativesÉmile Bréhier (brother)

Louis René Bréhier (French: [bʁeje]; 5 August 1868 – 13 October 1951) was a French historian who specialized in Byzantine studies. His brother was the philosopher Émile Bréhier.

Biography

Louis Bréhier was born in

dissertation Le schisme oriental du XIe siècle ("The Eastern Schism in the 11th Century").[2] Bréhier became a professor at the University of Paris, teaching ancient and medieval history and geography. He presented a paper on "Les colonies d'Orientaux en Occident du Moyen Age" at the Thirteenth Congress of Orientalists in Hamburg in 1902.[1]

From 1903 to 1938 he was professor of

medieval history in Clermont-Ferrand.[3] His travels were largely confined to the Mediterranean world that included an archaeological mission to Mount Athos in 1930. He settled in Reims after World War II and died in this city in 1951.[4]

Bréhier's best known work was the three-volume Le Monde byzantin ("The Byzantine World"). He was a specialist of Byzantine

Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.[4] Bréhier contributed many articles to the Catholic Encyclopedia.[1]

Selected publications

Translation or collaboration

  • Histoire anonyme de la première croisade, éditée et traduite par Louis Bréhier, (Anonymous history of the First Crusade, edited and translated into French by Louis Bréhier), Paris 1924.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Bréhier, Louis René", The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 18Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ WorldCat Title Le schisme oriental du XIe siècle
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  4. ^ a b Institut national d'histoire de l'art biography
  5. ^ Louis René Bréhier (1868–1951) (1913). In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  6. ^ Bréhier, L. (1924). Histoire anonyme de la première croisade. Paris: H. Champion.

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