Georges Duby

Author

French historian

1919 - 1996

country of citizenship: France
language of expression: French
educated at: Faculty of Arts of Paris, University of Lyon (1896-1969)
occupation: historian
award received: Commander of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎, Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms, Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit, Grand Prix Gobert, film pas catholique, honorary doctorate of the University of Santiago de Compostela, honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Lublin, honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain, Ambassadors' Prize
position held: seat 26 of the Académie française

Georges Duby (7 October 1919 – 3 December 1996) was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s to his death. Born to a family of Provençal craftsmen living in Paris, Duby was initially educated in the field of historical geography before he moved into history. He earned an undergraduate degree at Lyon in 1942 and completed his graduate thesis at the Sorbonne under Charles-Edmond Perrin in 1952. He taught first at Besançon and then at the University of Aix-en-Provence before he was appointed in 1970 to the Chair of the History of Medieval Society in the Collège de France. He remained attached to the Collège until his retirement in 1991. He was elected to the Académie française in 1987.
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