Bernard Heyberger

Bernard Heyberger (* 1954 in Sankt Pilt ) is a French historian .

Life

After graduating from the Ribeauvillé Lycée in 1972, he studied history at the University of Strasbourg . In 1979 he received the CAPES (Certificat d'Aptitude au Professorat de l'Enseignement du Second Degré) in history and geography and in 1980 he achieved the rank of Agrégation in history. From 1979 to 1989 he taught at various secondary schools. He spent 1989–90 in Damascus and studied Arabic with a scholarship from the Institut français d'études arabes. From 1990 to 1993 he was a research assistant at the École Française de Rome. In 1993 he completed his doctoral thesis with the title “Les Chrétiens du Proche-Orient au temps de la Réforme catholique” under the supervision of Louis Châtellier in Nancy.

He specializes in the history of Christianity in the Middle East from the 16th century to the present day, modern Catholicism and Catholic missions, and the Arab provinces of the late Ottoman Empire, particularly Syria. He is director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ( EHESS ) in Paris and at the same time holds a chair as director of studies in the religious studies department at the École Pratique des Hautes Études ( EPHE ) in Paris.

Fonts (selection)

• Les chrétiens du Proche-Orient au temps de la réforme catholique. (Syrie, Liban, Palestine, XVIIe – XVIIIe siècles) . Paris 1994, ISBN 2-7283-0309-6 .
• Hindiyya mystique et criminelle (1720–1798) . Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7007-2322-8 .
• Les chrétiens au Proche-Orient. De la compassion à la compréhension . Paris 2013, ISBN 2-228-90883-5 .
• as editor with Jakob Vogel and Valérie Assan: Minorités en Méditerranée au XIXe siècle. Identities, identifications, circulation . Rennes 2019, ISBN 2-7535-7592-4 .

Web links

• ephe.fr