Lucien Febvre

Lucien Febvre ( born July 22, 1878 in Nancy, † September 26, 1956 in Saint -Amour, Jura ) was a French historian. Together with Marc Bloch, he founded the influential Annales School of historiography.

During his studies at the École Normale Supérieure (1899-1902) Lucien Febvre was strongly influenced by the geographer Paul Vidal de la Blache. In 1911 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Philip II and the Franche -Comté and then got a job at the University of Dijon. After he had actively participated in the First World War, he moved in 1919 to the University of Strasbourg. In 1933 he was appointed professor at the Collège de France. He reasoned with Anatole de Monzie the 20-volume Encyclopédie française ( 1935-1966 ).

As part of the Annales school Lucien Febvre, particularly on their mental history. His goal was to contextualize both the high and popular culture with the help of related sciences such as sociology, anthropology and linguistics. This interdisciplinary expansion of the science of history should make a more effective analysis of whole societies possible ( " histoire totale" ).

Lucien Febvre most important pupil was Fernand Braudel.

Fonts - A selection

  • Philippe II et la Franche -Comté. Étude d' histoire politique, religieuse et sociale, Champion, Paris 1912 edition: Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-262-01519-0
  • Un Destin: Martin Luther. Rieder, Paris 1928. Translation in German as Martin Luther. Edited, translated and with an afterword by Peter Schoettler, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, Ed. de la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l' Homme, Paris, 1996.
  • Le problème de l' au 16e siècle incroyance: la religion de Rabelais, Paris, 1942, in German translation as The problem of unbelief in the 16th century. Religion of Rabelais. With an afterword by Kurt Flasch. From the French by Grete Osterwald. Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-608-91673-3.
  • Le Rhin. Problèmes d' histoire et d' économie, avec Albert Demangeon, Armand Colin, Paris, 1935. In German translation as The Rhine and its history. Eds, trans. and with an afterword by Peter Schoettler, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, Ed. de la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l' Homme, Paris, 1994, ISBN 3-593-35152-8
  • Amour sacre, amour profane. Autour de l' Heptameron, Galliamrd, Paris, 1944. Translation in German as Margaret of Navarre ( Sicilian ) ( 1128-1183 ). A queen of the Renaissance between power, love and religion. Eds, trans. and with an afterword by Peter Schoettler, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, Ed. de la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l' Homme, Paris, 1998.
  • The conscience of the historian. Ed u from d French translator's by Ulrich Raulff, Wagenbach Berlin 1988 ISBN 3-8031-3539-7
  • The curious glance: Life in the French Renaissance. With e Vorw by Peter Burke. From d French by Gabriele Ricke and Ronald Voullié, Berlin 1989 ISBN 3-8031-2171- X
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