Émile Témime

Émile Témime (born October 2, 1926 in Bayonne , † November 18, 2008 in Marseille ) was a French historian and author . The focus of his work was on the history of the Mediterranean , especially Spain and the city of Marseille, as well as migration issues .

Témime was the son of a Jewish - Kabyle father and a Basque mother, who came from a leading Jewish families in the city of Bayonne. From 1968 Témime was professor at the Université de Provence , later directeur d'études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). After his retirement (1986) he began in 1992 together with Pierre Milza to publish a 25-volume history of immigration to France under the title Français d'ailleurs, peuple d'ici (“French from elsewhere, people from here”), which he continued until shortly worked before his death.

Works (selection)

• La Révolution et la guerre d'Espagne (together with Pierre Broué ). Minuit, Paris 1961. German edition: Revolution and War in Spain. History of the Spanish Civil War . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1968
• Histoire de l'Espagne contemporaine (together with Albert Broder and Gérard Chastagnaret ). Aubier, Paris 1979
• Voyages en Provence, Alpes, Côte d'Azur . Découvertes Gallimard series (nº 309), Gallimard, 1997
• Histoire de Marseille: De la révolution à nos jours . Perrin, 1999
• France, terre d'immigration . Découvertes Gallimard series (nº 380), Gallimard, 1999
• Les Hommes de Renault Billancourt . Autrement, 2004
• 1936, La Guerre d'Espagne commence . Complexes, 2006
• Le camp du Grand Arénas: Marseille, 1944–1966 (together with Nathalie Deguigné ). Autrement, 2008
• Marseille transit: les passagers de Belsunce . Autrement, 2008
• Les camps sur la plage, un exile espagnol (together with Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand ). Autrement, 2008

Web links

• Short CV and bibliography (pages from the University of Aix-Marseille; French)
• Obituary in Le Monde (French)