Fernand Braudel | |
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Born | Fernand Paul Achille Braudel 24 August 1902 Luméville-en-Ornois, France |
Died | 27 November 1985 Cluses, France | (aged 83)
Occupation | Historian |
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Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Paris |
Thesis | La Méditerranée et le Monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II (1947) |
Doctoral advisor | Georges Pagès[1], Roger Dion |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Algiers (1924–1932), Lycée Pasteur (Neuilly-sur-Seine), Lycée Condorcet and Lycée Henri-IV (1932–1935), University of São Paulo (1935–1937), École pratique des hautes études (1937–1939, 1945–1968) |
Notable students | François Furet |
Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (French: [fɛʁnɑ̃ bʁodɛl]; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: The Mediterranean (1923–49, then 1949–66), Civilization and Capitalism (1955–79), and the unfinished Identity of France (1970–85). He was a member of the Annales School of French historiography and social history in the 1950s and 1960s.
Braudel emphasized the role of large-scale socioeconomic factors in the making and writing of history.[2] In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the most important historian of the previous 60 years.[3]