Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard (born 16 April 1949) is a French historian of modern Protestantism and honorary docent at the Faculté de théologie protestante de Paris. She is vice-president of the Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français and a member of the Comité consultatif national d'éthique pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé (2013–2017).[1]
Born in Poitiers, she and the magistrate Irène Carbonnier were both daughters of lawyer Jean Carbonnier and Madeleine Hugues, the latter being a granddaughter of Edmond Hugues, founder of the Musée du Désert[2]
In 1974 she gained a doctorate in the third cycle of the history of philosophy at the université Paris IV with a thesis entitled Émigration et sécession pour cause religieuse, étude de philosophie politique (Emigration and secession for religious reasons, a study of political philosophy).[3] She then became a curator at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1976–1986) before starting a teaching and research career in the faculté de théologie protestante de Paris (French: Institut protestant de théologie) (1986–2012). She thus coordinated the activities of the Groupe de recherches en histoire des protestantismes[4] and in 2015 became an associate member of the Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes.[5]
She is also assistant-curator at the Musée du Désert, the main museum of French Protestantism, located at Mas Soubeyran in Mialet, as well as vice-president of the Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français.[6]