{{Short description|French medievalist}} '''Philippe Wolff''' (1913–2001) was a French medievalist who specialised in the economic and social history of Languedoc.
==Life and career== Wolff was born in Montmorency, Seine-et-Oise, on 2 September 1913.<ref name=aibl>{{Cite web|url=https://aibl.fr/academiciens-1663/wolff-philippe/|title=Wolff, Philippe}}</ref> He graduated licentiate of history and geography in 1934, and doctor of letters in 1939. At the beginning of the Second World War he was a liaison officer with the British Expeditionary Force in France.<ref name=aibl/> From 1945 to 1974 he taught, from 1953 as a full professor, at the Université de Toulouse II. From 1968 to 1980 he served as president of the International Commission for the History of Towns. On 9 February 1973 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.<ref name=aibl/> He was also a member of the Royal Historical Society, the Institute for Catalan Studies, the Medieval Academy of America and the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona. He died in Andorra on 3 September 2001.<ref name=aibl/>
==Awards and honours== * Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur * Officier de l’Ordre des Palmes académiques * Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres
==Publications== ===Books=== * 1954: ''Commerces et marchands de Toulouse, vers 1350-1450'' * 1960: with F. Mauro, ''Histoire du travail. II, L’âge de l’artisanat, Ve-XVIIIe siècles'' * 1962: with J. Dieuzaide, ''Voix et images de Toulouse'' * 1965: with P. Gérard and E. Magnou, ''Les cartulaires des Templiers de Douzens'' * 1968: ''The Awakening of Europe'' (Pelican History of European Thought, 1) * 1969: with G. Wiet and V. Elisseeff, ''Histoire du développement scientifique et culturel de l’Humanité. III, De 400 à 1300 après J.-C.'' * 1971: ''Les origines linguistiques de l’Europe occidentale'' * 1978: ''Regards sur le Midi médiéval'' * 1980: (editor), ''Histoire du diocèse de Toulouse'' * 1985: (editor), ''Histoire de Perpignan'' * 1986: ''Automne du Moyen Âge ou Printemps des temps nouveaux? L'économie européenne aux XIVe et XVe siècles'' * 1993: ''Histoire internationale du vouvoiement''
===Articles=== * "The 1391 Pogrom in Spain. Social Crisis or Not?", ''Past & Present'', 50 (1971), pp. 4-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/650241
==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolff, Philippe}} Category:1913 births Category:2001 deaths Category:French medievalists Category:20th-century French educators