Jacques Le Goff

Biography

Its Masters are Charles-Edmond Perrin, reader of Georges Duby, Marc Bloch and Maurice Lombard. He points out also readily the influence of Henri Michel, which was its professor d' Histoire with the college of Toulon.

Former student of the National university, studying at the university Charles of Prague in 1947-1948, aggregate of history in 1950 and member of the French School of Rome, it is named attending the Faculty of Lille (1954-1959) before being attached of research to CNRS (1960) then lecturer to the VI° section of EPHE (1962).

Goff succeeds Fernand Braudel in 1972 with the head of the École of the high studies in social sciences, where he is director of studies. It yields its place to François Furet in 1977. Historian of the movement known as of the Yearly , it devotes himself to the historical anthropology of the medieval Occident.

As Directeur of study to the Ecole of the high studies in social sciences (EHESS ex-EPHE), Jacques Le Goff publishes brilliant studies devoted, which renews the historical research, to mentalities and the anthropology of the Middle Ages (thus " Merchants and bankers with the Means-Age" published in 1957). Deputy manager of Yearly ESC, it directs companies related to the " news histoire" like the collection " To make histoire" in 1977 and the bulky " dictionary of the News histoire" published the following year, summons which gives a progress report on the projections of the national historical research, left result of the revolution of Annals. Sign success of its theses, it plays a part in the teaching renewal of the history while taking part in the drafting of a school handbook in 1964.

Jacques Le Goff, director of collection at Flammarion and Co-producer of radio broadcasts (it produces the emission Mondays of the History on France Culture since 1967), continued, very prolific, her work on the Middle Ages ( " age of the Occident médiéval" in 1972, " For another Means-Age" in 1977, " Birth of Purgatoire" in 1981, " Imaginary the médiéval" in 1985). It was a long time, with Georges Duby, one of the best specialists in this period, recognized like such in France but also in the foreign universities.

Goff was one of the figures of the Nouvelle history in the years 1970. Its seminar with the EHESS explored the ways then new of historical anthropology. In this respect the second reading of the work of Marc Bloch and in particular his Master-work, the " Kings thaumaturges" (1924), was decisive in its historical reflection. He published articles on the medieval universities, work, time, the gestures, the images, the legends… He counts many disciples who continued and looked further into these research topics (Jean-Claude Schmitt, Jerome Baschet, Jacques Chiffoleau, Alain Boureau, Jean-Claude Bonne).

In the years 1980 he works with a biography of Saint-Louis which appears in 1996. While pointing out the crucial steps of the reign of Louis IX, it renews the biographical kind by its method and its reflections on the possibility really of knowing a character of the Middle Ages.

Distinctions

Deputy manager of the Review Annals, History, Social sciences
Deputy manager of the Italian review of popularization Storia E File

Former member of:

National committee
Superior council of Research and technology
Superior council of the Universities
Scientific advice of the Research institute and history of the texts
Of the Foundation France-Poland
Of the Foundation “For Science” Center International of Synthesis
Of Academia Europea
Of the Academy Polonaise of Sciences
Corresponds fellow off the Medieval Academy off America of the Jury of the Academic institute of France
President of the Scientific advice of the National school of the Inheritance

Price, decorations

national Grand Prix of History, (1987)
Price Tevere (Rome)
Grand Prix of the Foundation of France
Gold medal of CNRS, 1991
Commander in the Order of the Arts and Lettres, 1997
Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History Heineken Fondsen Foundation, 2004
International prize daN David daN David, 2007

Docteur Honoris Causa

He is honorary doctor of many Universities, among which:

University of Cracow,
the University of Louvain,
University of Jerusalem,
University of Budapest,
University of Warsaw,
University of Bucharest,
University of Cluj,
University of Prague

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