Jean-Baptiste Duroselle

Jean -Baptiste Duroselle ( born November 17, 1917 in Paris, † 12 September 1994 Arradon ) was a French historian.

Life

Duroselle studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and received his Agrégation in history and geography in 1943. Between 1945 and the end of his thèse d' État in history in 1949, he was an assistant in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Sorbonne. From 1950 to 1957 he taught history at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken and from 1957-58 at the University of Lille. Between 1958 and 1964 he led a political science research institute of international relations at the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques. In 1964 he was elected professor of modern history at the Sorbonne. In 1983 he became Professor Emeritus. From 1985-86 he was in rotation President of the Institut de France.

He was President of a Commission, which dealt with the release of documents to the French diplomatic history. Duroselles main focus was on to illuminate the causes of the Second World War. He was further president of the company founded by Pierre Renouvin Institut d' histoire des relations internationales contemporaines at the Sorbonne. In 1988 he published a biography of Georges Clemenceau. In 1990 in several European publishers and in eight languages ​​, his book Europe. A history of its peoples, in which he described the history of the continent from an overall European perspective.

In 1975 he was elected member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. In 1982 he was awarded the Balzan Prize in Social Sciences. He was an officer of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite. The Institut d' histoire des relations internationales contemporaines named an award after him. Similarly, a hall at the Sorbonne is named after him.

Since 1940, he was married to Christiane Viant, with whom he had three sons and a daughter.