{{Short description|French Byzantinist}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand French|topic=bio|date=May 2021}} {{Expand Russian|topic=bio|date=May 2021}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} '''Paul Lemerle''' ({{IPA|fr|pol ləmɛʁl}}; 22 April 1903 – 17 July 1989) was a [[French people|French]] [[Byzantinist]], born in [[Paris]].
==Biography== Lemerle taught at the ''[[École française d'Athènes]]'' (1931–1941), at the ''Faculté des Lettres'' of the [[University of Burgundy]] at [[Dijon]] (1942–1947), at the ''[[École Pratique des Hautes Études]]'' (1947–1968), at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] (1958–1967) and at the ''[[Collège de France]]'' (1967–1973). He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1945, on the city of [[Philippi]] and eastern [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]] during the Byzantine period.
He was the founding president of the [[International Association of Byzantine Studies]] (AIEB).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://aiebnet.gr/aieb-en/ |title=AIEB |publisher=[[International Association of Byzantine Studies]] |access-date=2024-06-20}}</ref>
He died in Paris.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-prof-paul-lemerle/149718594/ |title=Prof Paul Lemerle |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |publication-place=London |page=17 |date=1989-07-28 |access-date=2024-06-20 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Works== * ''Le style byzantin.'' 1943. * ''Philippes et la Macédoine orientale à l'époque chrétienne et byzantine.'' Thèse de doctorat, Paris, 1945. * ''L'émirat d'Aydin, Byzance et l'Occident.'' 1957. * ''Histoire de Byzance.'' 1960. Translated into English as ''A history of Byzantium.'' 1964. * ''Élèves et professeurs à Constantinople au Xe siècle.'' 1969. * ''Le premier humanisme byzantin.'' 1971. Translated into English as ''Byzantine humanism, the first phase.'' 1986. Translated into Russian as ''Первый византийский гуманизм.'' 2012. * ''Cinq études sur le XIe siècle Byzantin.'' 1977. * ''Le monde de Byzance.'' 1978. * ''Les plus anciens recueils des miracles de Saint Démétrius et la pénétration des Slaves dans les Balkans.'' 1979. * ''The agrarian history of Byzantium from the origins to the twelfth century.'' 1979. * ''Essais sur le monde byzantin.'' 1980.
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==Sources== * {{cite web | last = Dagron | first = Gilbert | authorlink = Gilbert Dagron | title = Paul Lemerle 1903–1989 | language = French | url = http://www.college-de-france.fr/media/ins_dis/UPL1031_necrolemerle1.pdf | publisher = Collège de France | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20101228080645/http://www.college-de-france.fr/media/ins_dis/UPL1031_necrolemerle1.pdf | archivedate = 2010-12-28 }} * {{cite journal | last = Beck | first = Hans-Georg | authorlink = Hans-Georg Beck | title = Paul Lemerle, † 17.7.1989 | language = German | url = http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/byzs.1989.82.1-2.U | journal = [[Byzantinische Zeitschrift]] | volume = 82 | issue = 1–2 | page = 34 | doi = 10.1515/byzs.1989.82.1-2.U | url-access = subscription }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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