Ernest Labrousse

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Ernest Labrousse (born March 16, 1895 in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire , † May 24, 1988 in Paris ) was a French historian of social and economic history . Although he worked with the Annales School , he was not a member.

life and work

He came from a family of craftsmen and studied history at the Sorbonne with François-Alphonse Aulard with the DEA degree in 1913. After the First World War he studied law with a degree as a lawyer and did his doctorate on social revolutionary legislation from 1789 to 1791. He turned from around 1926 under the influence of François Simiand economic history too. After the war he succeeded Marc Bloch at the Sorbonne, on whose influence he had already become Directeur d'études in the fourth section of the École pratique des hautes études in 1938 . As a supervisor of various dissertations, he was a central figure for younger historians of the Annales School , but at the same time he was only a marginal person in this. His students include Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie , Pierre Vilar and Alain Corbin . He brought statistical methods and Marxist ideas closer to the Annales School.

According to his model, the historical process is based on the three determinants of economy, society and mentality. It was he who introduced quantitative methods into the science of history. So he worked z. For example, from existing data, bread prices in Paris on the eve of the French Revolution and found that they were highest at the time of the storming of the Bastille .

In 1979 Labrousse was awarded the Balzan Prize for History together with Giuseppe Tucci . In 1964 he received an honorary doctorate in Krakow. In 1977 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy .

He was politically active with the French Socialists and at times with the Communists and wrote for L'Humanité . In 1982 he succeeded Albert Soboul as president of the Société des études robespierristes , the publisher of the Annales historiques de la Révolution française .

Fonts

  • Esquisse du mouvement des prix et des revenus en France au XVIIIe siècle , 2 volumes, Paris: Dalloz, 1932
  • La Crise de l'économie française à la fin de l'ancien régime et au début de la Révolution , Paris: PUF, 1943
  • Histoire économique et sociale de la France , 3 volumes, Paris: PUF, 1970-1979

literature

  • Maria Novella Borghetti: "L'histoire à l'épreuve de l'expérience statistique: l'histoire économique et le tournant des années 1930" in: Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines , 2002/1 - N ° 6, ISSN  1622- 468X , pp 15-38 online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mort d'Ernest Labrousse , in: Le Monde v. May 25, 1988, and Madeleine Rebérioux and Michel Vovelle: La mort de Camille-Ernest Labrousse. Le père de l'histoire économique , in: Le Monde v. May 26, 1988.
  2. ↑ Peter Burke : The story of the> Annales <. The emergence of the new historiography , Berlin 2004, p. 69.
  3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Labrousse, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian of social and economic history
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1988
Place of death Paris