# Paul Lemerle

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French Byzantinist

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**Paul Lemerle** (French pronunciation: [\[pol ləmɛʁl\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French); 22 April 1903 – 17 July 1989) was a [French](/source/French_people) [Byzantinist](/source/Byzantinist), born in [Paris](/source/Paris).

## Biography

Lemerle taught at the *[École française d'Athènes](/source/%C3%89cole_fran%C3%A7aise_d'Ath%C3%A8nes)* (1931–1941), at the *Faculté des Lettres* of the [University of Burgundy](/source/University_of_Burgundy) at [Dijon](/source/Dijon) (1942–1947), at the *[École Pratique des Hautes Études](/source/%C3%89cole_Pratique_des_Hautes_%C3%89tudes)* (1947–1968), at the [Sorbonne](/source/University_of_Paris) (1958–1967) and at the *[Collège de France](/source/Coll%C3%A8ge_de_France)* (1967–1973). He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1945, on the city of [Philippi](/source/Philippi) and eastern [Macedonia](/source/Macedonia_(region)) during the Byzantine period.

He was the founding president of the [International Association of Byzantine Studies](/source/International_Association_of_Byzantine_Studies) (AIEB).[1]

He died in Paris.[2]

## 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.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["AIEB"](https://aiebnet.gr/aieb-en/). [International Association of Byzantine Studies](/source/International_Association_of_Byzantine_Studies). Retrieved 20 June 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Prof Paul Lemerle"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-prof-paul-lemerle/149718594/). *[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)*. London. 28 July 1989. p. 17. Retrieved 20 June 2024 – via Newspapers.com.

## Sources

- [Dagron, Gilbert](/source/Gilbert_Dagron). ["Paul Lemerle 1903–1989"](https://web.archive.org/web/20101228080645/http://www.college-de-france.fr/media/ins_dis/UPL1031_necrolemerle1.pdf) (PDF) (in French). Collège de France. Archived from [the original](http://www.college-de-france.fr/media/ins_dis/UPL1031_necrolemerle1.pdf) (PDF) on 28 December 2010.

- [Beck, Hans-Georg](/source/Hans-Georg_Beck). ["Paul Lemerle, † 17.7.1989"](http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/byzs.1989.82.1-2.U). *[Byzantinische Zeitschrift](/source/Byzantinische_Zeitschrift)* (in German). **82** (1–2): 34. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1515/byzs.1989.82.1-2.U](https://doi.org/10.1515%2Fbyzs.1989.82.1-2.U).[*[permanent dead link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*]

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