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Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (/blɒk/; French:[maʁkleɔpɔldbɛ̃ʒamɛ̃blɔk]; 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. As an academic, he worked at the University of Strasbourg (1920 to 1936 and 1940 to 1941), the University of Paris (1936 to 1939), and the University of Montpellier (1941 to 1944).
Born in Lyon to an Alsatian Jewish family, Bloch was raised in Paris, where his father—the classical historian Gustave Bloch—worked at Sorbonne University. Bloch was educated at various Parisian lycées and the École Normale Supérieure, and from an early age was affected by the antisemitism of the Dreyfus affair. During the First World War, he served in the French Army and fought at the First Battle of the Marne and the Somme. After the war, he was awarded his doctorate in 1918 and became a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg. There, he formed an intellectual partnership with modern historian Lucien Febvre. Together they founded the Annales School and began publishing the journal Annales d'histoire économique et sociale in 1929. Bloch was a modernist in his historiographical approach, and repeatedly emphasised the importance of a multidisciplinary engagement towards history, particularly blending his research with that on geography, sociology and economics, which was his subject when he was offered a post at the University of Paris in 1936.
During the Second World War Bloch volunteered for service, and was a logistician during the Phoney War. Involved in the Battle of Dunkirk and spending a brief time in Britain, he unsuccessfully attempted to secure passage to the United States. Back in France, where his ability to work was curtailed by new antisemitic regulations, he applied for and received one of the few permits available allowing Jews to continue working in the French university system. He had to leave Paris, and complained that the Nazi German authorities looted his apartment and stole his books; he was also persuaded by Febvre to relinquish his position on the editorial board of Annales. Bloch worked in Montpellier until November 1942 when Germany invaded Vichy France. He then joined the non-Communist section of the French Resistance and went on to play a leading role in its unified regional structures in Lyon. In 1944, he was captured by the Gestapo in Lyon and murdered in a summary execution after the Allied invasion of Normandy. Several works—including influential studies like The Historian's Craft and Strange Defeat—were published posthumously.
His historical studies and his death as a member of the Resistance together made Bloch highly regarded by generations of post-war French historians; he came to be called "the greatest historian of all time".[1] By the end of the 20th century, historians were making a more sober assessment of Bloch's abilities, influence, and legacy, arguing that there were flaws to his approach.
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...
The University MarcBloch, also known as Strasbourg II or UMB was a university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. As of 2006, it had around 13,000 students...
include co-founders Lucien Febvre (1878–1956), Henri Hauser (1866–1946) and MarcBloch (1886–1944). The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel (1902–1985)...
concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs. A broader definition, as described by MarcBloch (1939), includes not only the obligations of the warrior nobility but...
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...
Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France) is a work by historian MarcBloch first published in 1924. It deals with the miraculous powers attributed...
such as the Catalan or French crisis. By 1929, the French historian MarcBloch was already writing about the effects of the crisis, and by mid-century...
theories, described below. The most widely held theory is put forth by MarcBloch that it is related to the Frankish term *fehu-ôd, in which *fehu means...
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...
respective fields. Among them are Goethe, statesman Robert Schuman, historian MarcBloch and several chemists such as Louis Pasteur. The university emerged from...
Lucienne Bloch (1909–1999), Swiss-American artist and photographer, daughter of Ernest BlochMarcBloch (1886–1944), French historian Marcel Bloch, later...
post-graduate schools: Strasbourg I – Louis Pasteur University Strasbourg II – MarcBloch University Strasbourg III – Robert Schuman University The three institutions...
d'histoire économique et sociale journal was founded in 1929 in Strasbourg by MarcBloch and Lucien Febvre. These authors, the former a medieval historian and...
earned her master's degree in 2019. Boafo did a study abroad semester at MarcBloch University in Strasbourg, France. Boafo made her acting debut as Asa in...
province was returned to France. While there, Febvre became acquainted with MarcBloch, who shared Febvre's philosophical and political approach, which brought...
Resistance martyr, MarcBloch). One of the most influential books on the war was written in summer 1940 by French historian MarcBloch: L'Étrange Défaite...
school historians, such as Jean-Claude Schmitt. Established in 1929 by MarcBloch and Lucien Febvre, the journal Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales is...
Manitoba, a university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada MarcBloch University, also known as Université MarcBloch (UMB), a university in France Norwegian University...
in the summer of 1940 by French historian MarcBloch. The book was published in 1946; in the meanwhile, Bloch had been tortured and executed by the Gestapo...
Gustave Bloch (21 July 1848 – 3 December 1923) was a French Jewish historian of ancient history. He was the father of historian MarcBloch (1886–1944)...
five trips between 28 May and 2 June, among them the French historian MarcBloch, who served as a French army captain in the campaign. This was the largest...
481–511) was the first king who touched for scrofula, but the medievalist MarcBloch (1886–1944) argued that it was probably Philip I. Modern scholars, most...
history of mentalities lies in the writings of the 1st Annales historian MarcBloch with the concept then taken up by later theorists such as Georges Duby...
phrase of the Sorbonne's great medieval historian and Resistance martyr, MarcBloch). — M.S. Alexander While the French armies were being defeated, the government...
Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and an associate of the Centre MarcBloch in Berlin. After studying German language and culture at the University...
central medieval political culture. Yet some argue against this assumption; MarcBloch disdained this hunt for feudalism's birth as 'the idol of origins'. A...
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