Jacques Le Goff

1924 - 2014

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: Annales school

country of citizenship: France

languages spoken, written or signed: French, Italian, English, German, Polish

educated at: Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Thiers, École Normale Supérieure

occupation: historian, French Resistance fighter, medievalist

award received: Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎, CNRS Gold medal, Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History, honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Broquette-Gonin prize, Hegel Prize, Historian Prize of the city of Muenster, Grand Prix Gobert, Dan David Prize, Grand Prix d’Histoire de la Ville de Paris, honorary doctorate from the University of Parma, docteur honoris causa de l'université de Pavie, Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America

position held: president

student of: Charles-Edmond Perrin, Maurice Lombard

Jacques Le Goff (French pronunciation: [ʒak lə ɡɔf]; 1 January 1924 – 1 April 2014) was a French historian and prolific author specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries.Le Goff championed the Annales School movement, which emphasizes long-term trends over the topics of politics, diplomacy, and war that dominated 19th-century historical research. From 1972 to 1977, he was the head of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. He was a leading figure of New History, related to cultural history. Le Goff argued that the Middle Ages formed a civilization of its own, distinct from both Classical Antiquity and the modern world. Source: Wikipedia (en)