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Fernand Braudel
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French historian and leader of the Annales School
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Fernand Braudel was a French historian and university teacher born in Luméville-en-Ornois on 24 August 1902. He was educated at the Lycée Voltaire and the University of Paris, studying under Henri Hauser and François Victor Alphonse Aulard. Braudel worked at the University of São Paulo, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Collège de France, and Sciences Po, with work locations in Paris, Algiers, and São Paulo. He was a member of the Annales school and served as a full professor.
His notable works include *Capitalism & Material Life, 1400-1800*, *Histoire économique du monde méditerranéen, 1450-1650*, and *La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II*. Braudel received the Commander of the Legion of Honour and was recognized in the Académie Française collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He was a member of the Académie Française, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He died in Cluses on 27 November 1985 and is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 24 August 1902
- Died
- 27 November 1985
- Works
- 170
Top works
- Capitalism & Material Life, 1400-1800
- Histoire économique du monde méditerranéen, 1450-1650
- la méditéranée et le monde méditéranéen à l'époque de Philippe 2
- El Mediterráneo
- La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Achille
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Luméville-en-Ornois
- Place of death
- Cluses
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Lycée Voltaire
- Languages spoken
- French
- Notable work
- The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
- Student of
- François Victor Alphonse Aulard
- Field of work
- history
- Movement
- Annales school
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Photo of Fernand Braudel on The Identity of France dustjacket.jpg
- Work location
- São Paulo
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- Fernand Braudel
- date of birth
- 1902-08-24
- date of death
- 1985-11-27
- member of
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Fernand Braudel
- writing language
- French
- professorship
- full professor
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- birth name
- Fernand Paul Achille Braudel
- interested in
- early modern period
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Plaque Fernand Braudel, 59 rue Brillat-Savarin, Paris 13 Braudel emphasized the role of large-scale socioeconomic factors in the making and writing of history. In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the most important historian of the previous 60 years.
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