Pierre Lanfranchi
Pierre Lanfranchi (born April 22, 1959 in Constantine , Algeria ) is a French historian who is particularly concerned with the history of football .
biography
Lanfranchi was born in Algeria , which was then still French ; he studied history and art history at the University of Montpellier , at the Institute for European History in Mainz and at the European University Institute in Florence . In 1988 he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on the information policy of the German press in the First World War.
Since 1993, Pierre Lanfranchi has been working as a Research Professor at De Montfort University in Leicester , where he helped establish the courses in Sport, History and Culture as well as in Management, Law, History and Geography of Sport at the International Center for Sports History and Culture . He has also been visiting professor at the University of San Marino since 1996 and has lectured on the history and the economic, social and cultural backgrounds of football at numerous European universities. Since 2006 he has also been research coordinator at the Center International d'Étude du Sport in Neuchâtel, Switzerland . Since 2008 he has headed the World Economic Forum Commission on the Role of Sport in Today's Societies.
He has also been organizing international congresses and symposia on football history topics since the 1990s, and is a scientific advisor to FIFA and the history committee of the Italian Football Association . He lives in Tuscany .
Publications (in selection)
Books
- (as editor): Il calcio e il suo pubblico. Edizioni Scientifice Italiane, Naples 1992
- (together with Alfred Wahl ): Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-01-235098-4
- (together with Richard Holt and JA Mangan): European heroes: Myth, identity, sport. Cass, London 1996 ISBN 978-0-7146-4125-6
- (together with Matthew Taylor): Moving with the ball. The migration of professional footballers. Berg, Oxford / New York 2001 ISBN 1-85973-307-7
- (together with Christiane Eisenberg , Tony Mason and Alfred Wahl): FIFA 1904–2004. 100 years of world football. The workshop, Göttingen 2004 ISBN 3-89533-442-1
- (Ed., Together with Christiane Eisenberg): Special issue: Football history. Center for Historical Social Research, Cologne 2006
Essays
- Sète vainqueur de la Coupe et du Championnat de France de football en 1934. In: Université de Montpellier III, Mémoire histoire, 1982
- Apparition et affirmation du football in Languedoc 1900–1935. In: P. Arnaud / J. Camy (ed.): La naissance du mouvement sportif associatif en France. PUL, Lyon 1986
- Gli esordi di una pratica sportiva. Il calcio nel bacino del Mediterraneo occidentale. In: Guido Panico / L. Giacomardo (ed.): Università e sport. Rome 1989
- Rugby contro calcio. La genesi delle due pratiche sportive nella Francia meridionale. In: Ricerche Storiche XIX , 2, 1989
- Calcio e progresso tecnologico. Il ruolo deli Svizzeri in Italia. In: Lancilotto e Nausica , VII, 1990
- Football in Europe 1920-1938. The development of an international network. In: Roman Horak / Wolfgang Reiter (ed.): The edges of the round leather. Contributions to European football culture. Promedia, Vienna 1991
- Bologna: The team that shook the world. In: The International Journal of the History of Sport , No. 8, 1991
- Les “footballeurs-étudiants” yougoslaves en Languedoc (1925–1935). In: Sport-Histoire , 2, 1993
- Mekloufi, un footballeur français dans la guerre d'Algérie. In: Actes de la Recherche en Sciences sociales , No. 103, June 1994
- Elements for a comparative analysis of the prevalence of the football game in France and Germany. In: Jean-Michel Delaplace / Giselher Spitzer / Gerhard Treutlein (eds.): Sports and physical education in France and Germany from a contemporary perspective. Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 1994
- Exporting football: notes on the development of football in Europe. In: Richard Giulianotti / John Williams (ed.): Game without Frontiers. Football, Identity and Modernity. Arena, Aldershot 1994
- (together with Alfred Wahl): The Immigrant as Hero: Kopa, Mekloufi and French Football. In: The International Journal of the History of Sport , Vol. XIII, No. 1, March 1996
- France and Italy. In: Christiane Eisenberg (ed.): Fußball, soccer, calcio. An English sport on its way around the world. dtv, Munich 1997 ISBN 3-423-04709-7
- The beginnings of football in the regions of the western Mediterranean. In: Siegfried Gehrmann (ed.): Football and Region in Europe. Problems of regional identity and the importance of a popular sport. Lit, Münster 1999 ISBN 3-8258-3134-5 (first published in 1997 as Football and regional identity in Europe. )
- La Première Guerre mondiale et le développement du football en Europe: l'exemple Italy. In: Yves Gastaut / Stéphane Mourlane (eds.): Le Football dans nos sociétés. Une culture populaire 1914-1998. Autrement, Paris 2006
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lanfranchi, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Constantine , Algeria |