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Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch ( / blɒk /; French: [maʁk leɔpɔld bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ blɔk]; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on Medieval France over the course of his career.
Jun 12, 2024 · Marc Bloch (born July 6, 1886, Lyon, France—died June 16, 1944, near Lyon) was a French medieval historian, editor, and Resistance leader known for his innovative work in social and economic history.
Nov 10, 2011 · French Resistance leader. Hero. Wikicommons. At eight on the evening of June 16, 1944—dusk on the tenth day after the Allied invasion of France–the Gestapo dragged 28 French resistance...
Jun 24, 2024 · Marc Bloch. (1886—1944) Quick Reference. (1886–1944) French historian, who died fighting with the Resistance in World War II. Of French-Alsatian Jewish descent, Block was born in Lyons, where his father taught ancient history.
They not only wrote great history but they played prominent roles in Greek politics. Among the outstanding and more recent historians who have received and deserved studies because of the richness of their lives are Gibbon, Macaulay, Michelet, Taine, and Guizot. So it is with Marc Bloch.
May 11, 2018 · Marc Bloch. The French historian Marc Bloch (1886-1944) was the leading French medievalist of the 20th century. He inspired two generations of historians through his teaching and writing. Marc Bloch was born at Lyons on July 6, 1886, the son of Gustave Bloch, a professor of ancient history.
Marc Bloch, (born July 6, 1886, Lyon, France—died June 16, 1944, near Lyon), French historian. He served in the French infantry in World War I. From 1919 he taught medieval history at the University of Strasbourg, where he cofounded the important periodical Annales d’histoire économique et sociale.
This is the first biography of Marc Bloch (1886–1944), historian, soldier in both world wars, and leader of the Resistance, who was captured, tortured, and died a heroic death.
Since his heroic death in 1944 and the end of the Second World War he has been the subject of an outpouring of writing by friends, colleagues, students, and com- panions in the Resistance.
Few twentieth-century scholars have achieved such widespread admiration as the French historian Marc Bloch (1886-1944).
