Robert Laurent
Robert Laurent (born September 10, 1908 in Seclin near Lille , † June 24, 2001 in Montpellier ) was a French historian. He was shaped by the leading figures of the École des Annales Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel . His specialty was the history of agriculture; he dealt in particular with viticulture in the Côte-d'Or department .
He was the nephew of the historian Georges Lefebvre and the geographer Théodore Lefebvre.
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Laurent studied at the Faculté des Lettres de Dijon (today Université de Bourgogne ) with the geographer Georges Chabot, among others . He acquired the license d'histoire et de geographie in 1930 , followed by the Diplôme d'Études Supérieures in 1931 , the thesis deals with viticulture on the Côte d'Or in the 19th century ( L'Agriculture de la Côte d'Or au XIXe siècle ) . Some of his work has been edited by Ernest Labrousse , Henri Sée and Marc Bloch . After he had successfully completed the Agrégation (a selection process for the teaching post in secondary schools) for the subjects of history and geography in 1938 , he taught in Nancy at the Lycée .
During the Second World War, Laurent, who was a reserve officer, was taken prisoner by Germany on June 15, 1940 and spent five years in various camps.
After teaching at the Lycée in Dijon from 1945 to 1950 , he was seconded to the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), German: National Center for Scientific Research . In 1955 he submitted a doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne entitled Les Vignerons de la Côte d'Or au XIXe siècle (German: The winemakers of the Côte d'Or in the 19th century). The work was supervised by Ernest Labrousse . In 1956 Laurent became professor of history at the Faculté des Lettres of the University of Montpellier and taught there until 1977. From 1957 he headed the Center universitaire de Perpignan , a forerunner of the later University of Perpignan . From the work Histoire economique et sociale de la France (published partly in German as Economy and Society in France in the Age of Industrialization ), which was published in 1976 by Fernand Braudel and Ernest Labrousse, Laurent prepared those chapters that deal with the agricultural history of France.
Robert Laurent died on June 24, 2001 in Montpellier.
Fonts
- L'Agriculture en Côte-d'Or pendant la première moitié du XIXe siècle , Rebourseau, Dijon 1931
- L'Octroi de Dijon au XIXe siècle , SEVPEN, Paris 1960
- Chapters 15 to 19 of Economy and Society in France in the Age of Industrialization , Volume 2, edited by Ernest Labrousse, translated from the French by Wolfgang Tschöke and Ilse Utz, Athenaeum Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-610-00734- 6 ; French original: L'avenement de l'ère industrial (partial edition of Histoire economique et sociale de France vol. I), Presse universitaire de France, Paris 1976
- La Révolution française dans le Languedoc méditerranéen: 1789-1799 , self-published, Toulouse 1987
literature
- Geneviève Gavignaud-Fontaine, Le professeur Robert Laurent aurait eu cent ans cette année , in Le Dit de l'UPV (the press of the University of Paul-Valery-Montpellier), no.106, February 2008
Web links
- Obituary by Jean Sagnes on Robert Laurent in the Etudes Héraultaises , accessed on January 31, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laurent, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seclin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 2001 |
| Place of death | Montpellier |