Frederic Barber

Frederic Barbier is a historian of the French book, born in 1952

Course

Archivist paleographer (1976), Frederic Barbier is the author of a thesis of the École of the charters entitled Nouvelles research on printing works of Strasbourg (1676-1830) . It supports then a doctorate in history and is doctor d' arts État and social sciences.

At his exit of the School of the charters, Frederic Barbier is preserving classified Public library of Valencian.

He however quickly leaves the conservation to become researcher at CNRS and teaching at the practical School of the high studies, section of historical and philological sciences. He was director of the French historical center of Göttingen, and occupied during two years, as a delegation, the post of professor in history of the book of the Enssib. He continues and looks further into the searchs for Henri-Jean Martin, of which he is the pupil and of which he took again the pulpit with the EPHE.

He is today Research director with the CNRS (Institute of history of the contemporary world, Ulm National university) and director of studies to the practical École of the high studies. He is deputy manager of the Center Gabriel Naudé, research center in history of the book which joins together the Enssib and the EPHE. Author of many books, he was editor association of the French Revue of history of the book ; he is today editor association of Histoire and age of the book: international review created in 2005.

Works (monographs)

1678, Valencians becomes French, catalogs exposure , Valencians: Public library, 1978
the Art of the binding through the Valenciennes-native collections , Valencians: Public library, 1978
Valencian, of the Reform to the Baroque (1559-1600) , Valencians: Public library, 1979
Three hundred years of bookstore and printing works: Shepherd-Levrault (1676-1830) , Geneva: Droz, 1979
Twelve centuries of art of the book: treasures of the Library of Valencians , Valencians: Public library, 1980
the Image of the World: charts, atlas and books of voyage (XVe-XVIIIe centuries) , Valencians: Public library, 1981
Beginnings of the printed book: editions of XVe century preserved in the libraries of the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais , Hénin-Beaumont: Association of the French librarians, Groups Northern, 1982
the employers of North under the Second Empire: a prosopographic approach , Geneva: Droz, 1989
Finance and policy: the dynasty of Fould: XVIIIe-XXe century , Paris: A. Hake, 1991
empire of the book: the printed book and the construction of contemporary Germany (1815-1914) , Paris: ED. stag, 1995
Europe and the book: networks and practices of the trade of bookstore (XVIe-XIXe centuries) , Paris: Klincksieck, 1996 (to codir.)
History of the media, Diderot with Internet , Paris: A. Hake, 1996 (with C. Bertho-Lavenir)
History of the book , Paris: A. Hake, 2000 (2nd ED. 2006)
Lights of North: printers, booksellers and “people of the book” in North at the XVIIIe century (1701-1789): dictionary prosopographic , Geneva: Droz, 2002
the cradle of the book, around the incunables: studies and tests offered to the professor Pierre North wind by his pupils, its colleagues and its friends , number set of themes of the French Re-examined of history of the book , 121,2003 (to dir.)
Europe of Gutenberg: the book and the invention of Western modernity (XIIIe-XVIe century) , Paris: Belin, 2006

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