Jean Glénisson Explained

Birth Date:	25 January 1921
Occupation:	Historian Archivist Paleographer

Jean Glénisson (25 January 1921 – 9 October 2010) was a French historian, archivist and paleographer.^[1]

Career

• Degree in literature at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, (1940)
• Studies at the École nationale des chartes
• Archivist paleographer (1946)
• Member of the École française de Rome (1946–1948)
• Curator at the Archives nationales (1950–1952), responsible for the Trésor des Chartes
• Head of the Archives of the French Equatorial Africa library in Brazzaville (1952–1957)
• Professor of historiography at the University of São Paulo in Brazil
• Chargé de conférences (1959–1963) then director of studies at the VIe section of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) (1963)^{[2] [3]}
• Director of the (1964 to 1986)
• Member of the International Committee of Latin paleography, successor of Jeanne Vielliard as director of the IRHT (1966–1992).^[4]

Notes and References

1. Marie-Laure Gobin, « Jean Glénisson n'est plus », Sud-Ouest, 13 octobre 2010, online
2. Paul Gary, « Jean Glénisson »online
3. Nicole Bertin, « Hommage au maître Jean Glénisson : Qu'un ami véritable est une douce chose ! », (1 February 2008) online
4. Annales du CIPL online