Francis Rapp Explained

Birth Date:27 June 1926
Birth Place:Strasbourg, France
Death Place:Angers, France
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Francis Rapp (27 June 1926 – 29 March 2020) was a French medievalist specializing in the history of Alsace and medieval Germany. An emeritus university professor, he was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres since 1993.

Life

Youth

Born in Strasbourg, the son of lawyer Léon Rapp,[1] Rapp was born into a Catholic and patriotic family. He did his secondary studies at the Jean Sturm Gymnasium and practiced scouting within the Scouts de France.[2] Breaking with forced incorporation, he joined a clandestine scouting group that gathered about twenty young people at the Mont Sainte-Odile from December 1942.[3] At the end of the 1960s he joined the Association des Guides et Scouts d'Europe and was commissioner of the Alsace Province until the mid-1980s.[4]

Academic career

Rapp graduated as a major of the agrégation d'histoire in 1952,[5] then was a teacher at the Lycée Fustel-de-Coulanges de Strasbourg between 1952 and 1953 and a resident of the Fondation Dosne-Thiers from 1956 to 1961; he was a lecturer at the faculté des lettres de Nancy from 1961 to 1972, then an assistant in medieval history at the Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg.[6] After becoming a Doctor of Letters in 1972, he was a lecturer and then a professor at the University of Strasbourg from 1974.[7]

A lecturer in the history of Christianity at the between 1972 and 1991, Rapp was an associate professor at the university of Neuchâtel and a visiting scholar at several universities in North America and Europe.[8]

Rapp was a member of the Consultative Committee of Universities, the Higher Council of University Bodies, the national committee of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, the scientific council and the board of directors of the École nationale des chartes and the École française de Rome. He was also a member of the, the Académie des Marches de l’Est and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

A member of the editorial board of the review Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte and a contributor to the Encyclopédie de l'Alsace and the , Rapp was elected in 1993 as a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in the seat of Emmanuel Laroche.[9]

Rapp died on 29 March 2020 in Angers at the age of 93, following an infection from COVID-19.[10]

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Publications

Rapp's publications are listed in the database, including;[13]

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Notes and References

  1. François Joseph Fuchs, "Francis Jean Joseph Rapp", in Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol. 30, p. 3083
  2. Gabriel Wackermann, Échappée belle... Malgré tout..., Books On Demand,, 2019.
  3. http://lesresistances.france3.fr/documentaire-aj/francis-rapp " Les Résistances, Francis Rapp "
  4. Web site: Compte Twitter officiel des Guides et Scouts d'Europe . 30 March 2020 . fr.
  5. http://rhe.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/?q=agregsecondaire_laureats&nom=&annee_op=%3D&annee%5Bvalue%5D=1952&annee%5Bmin%5D=&annee%5Bmax%5D=&periode=All&concours=8&items_per_page=10. André Chervel, "Les agrégés de l’enseignement secondaire. Répertoire 1809–1960"
  6. Web site: fr . Francis Rapp . babelio.com .
  7. Web site: fr . Francis Rapp . aibl.fr.
  8. Web site: fr . Francis Rapp . academie-alsace.fr .
  9. News: fr . Pierre Racine . Hommage à Francis Rapp . . 69 . 2 . 1995 . 143–145 .
  10. fr. Nécrologie. Francis Rapp s'en est allé, emporté par le Covid-19. Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace. 29 March 2020. 30 March 2020.
  11. Web site: fr . Décret du 13 mai 2016 portant promotion et nomination . legifrance.gouv.fr .
  12. Web site: fr . Francis Rapp . academie-francaise.fr.
  13. Web site: Rapp, Francis . Regesta Imperii .
  14. News: fr . Guy Fourquin . Francis Rapp, L'Église et la vie religieuse en Occident à la fin du Moyen Age . Revue du Nord . 218 . 1973 . 301.
  15. News: fr . . Francis Rapp, Réformes et réformation à Strasbourg. Église et société dans le diocèse de Strasbourg (1450–1525) . . 32 . 6 . 1977 . 1099–1101 .
  16. News: fr . Jean-Marie Cauchies . Rapp (Francis). Les origines médiévales de l'Allemagne moderne. De Charles IV à Charles Quint (1346–1519) . . 73 . 2 . 1995 . 488–491.