Gustave Bloch
Deceased Person
1848 – 1923
Who was Gustave Bloch?
Gustave Bloch was a French Jewish historian of ancient history born in Fegersheim, a commune located in the department of Bas-Rhin. He was the father of historian Marc Bloch, who along with Lucien Febvre, was co-founder of the École des Annales.
He received his agrégation in 1872, and during the following year began teaching classes in rhetoric at Lycée de Besançon. In 1876 he became a lecturer, and several years later started work as a professor of Greek and Roman antiquities at the University of Lyon. Beginning in 1888 he taught history at the École Normale Supérieure, where he succeeded historian Paul Guiraud [1850-1907. From 1904 to 1919 he was a professor of Roman history at the Faculté des lettres in Paris.
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- Born
- Jul 21, 1848
Fegersheim - Children
- Education
- École Normale Supérieure
- Died
- 1923
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on July 23, 2013
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