Paul Dumont

Paul Dumont is a French historian, specialist in Turkish and Balkan history.

Biography

Paul Dumont makes his studies with the Sorbonne, then in Paris-IV-Sorbonne after the bursting of this university. He supports his thesis of Doctorat in 1971: “village Literature” in Turkey. Socio-history approaches.

From 1971 to 1989, he is researcher with the National center of the scientific research. He teaches with the National institute of the languages and civilizations Eastern, of 1980 to 1990, like with the École of the high studies in social sciences of 1985 to 1990. He supports his thesis of doctorate of State in 1987, at the university of Strasbourg-II: Of the Ottoman Empire in current Turkey. Studies of political, social and cultural history . In 1989, he becomes professor of masterly row in Strasbourg-II.

From 1993 to 1997, Paul Dumont was director of the URA 1540 of CNRS, Mondes Turkish and Iranian at the time modern and contemporary. He is director of the French Institute of Anatolian studies since 1999 and lecturer at the French-speaking university Galatasaray of Istanbul.

Since 1981, Paul Dumont is co-director of the review Turcica , with Gilles Veinstein.

Paul Dumont works on sociability in the Ottoman Empire, and in particular the Franc-maçonnerie, in Turkey of the inter-war period, in the prolongation of his thesis of State, like with the study trips of the French military attach3es in the Eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire, after research on the conscripts, and, since the years 1970, at the origins of socialism in the Ottoman Empire.

Publications

Works

Anthropology of the French conscript , Paris - $the Hague, ED. Sheep, 1972 (with Emmanuel Roy Ladurie and Jean-Paul Aron)
the socialist Movements in the Ottoman Empire , Gözlem-Istanbul, 1977 (in collaboration with Georges Haupt)
Mustapha Kemal invents modern Turkey , ED. Complex, 1983, nouv. ED. 1997 and 2006 (work crowned by the French Academy)
Turkey. Books of yesterday, book of today , Strasbourg - Istanbul, Turkish Studies USHS, 1992
Stakes of Turkish immigration in Europe. Turks in France and Europe , ED. Harmattan, 1995 (in collaboration with Mr. Anasatassiadou, A. Jund and S. of Tapia)
Bulgarian Social democrats and the international socialist Office. Correspondence, 1900-1914 , Sofia, ED. Mikom, 1996
Of Othoman socialism to Anatolian internationalism , Istanbul, ED. Isis, 1997
To live together in the Ottoman Empire. Intercommunity sociabilities and relations. 18th - 19th centuries , ED. Harmattan 1997, (in collaboration with François Georgeon)
Osmanlıcılık, Ulusçu Akımlar ve Masonluk (Ottomanisme, national movements and freemasonry), Istanbul, Yapı ve Kredi Yay., 2000

Direction of collective works

Turkey and France at the time of Atatürk , ADET, coll Turcica, 1981
Islamic Radicalisms , ED. Harmattan, 1986, two vol. (joint management with Square Olivier)
Turkey with the threshold of Europe , ED. Harmattan, 1991 (joint management with François Georgeon)
Othoman Cities at the end of the Empire , ED. Harmattan, 1992 (joint management with François Georgeon)

Contributions to collective works

“the period of Tanzimat” and “the death of an Empire” (with François Georgeon), in Robert Mantran (to dir.), History of the Ottoman Empire , ED. Beech, 1989, pp. 459-522 and pp. 577-528
“the popular tradition in contemporary Turkish poetry”, Poetry of the Middle East and Greece , ED. Asfar, 1990, pp. 127-138.
“the business men Turkish seen by themselves”, in Paul Dumont and François Georgeon (to dir.), Turkey with the Threshold of Europe , pp. 203-218.
“the Greeks in the news of Knows Faik”, in Mélanges offered to Louis Bazin , ED. Harmattan, 1992, pp. 331-340
“Jews, Arabs and the cholera. Intercommunity relations in Baghdad at the end of the XIXe century”, in Paul Dumont and François Georgeon (to dir.), Othoman Cities at the end of the Empire , pp. 153-170
“on May first in Turkey”, in J. Thobie and S. Kançal (to dir.), Industrialization, communication and reports/ratios social in Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean , ED. Harmattan, 1994, pp. 245-257
“has Jewish, Socialist and Othoman Organization: the Worker' S Federation off Thessaloniki”, in Mr. Tunçay and E.J. Zürcher (ED.), Socialism and Nationalism in the Othoman Empire. 1876-1923 , London, The British Academic Near, 1994, pp. 49-76
“Jews, Muslims and Cholera: Inter-commune Relations in Baghdad At the End off the Nineteenth Century”, in A. Levy (ED.), The Jews off the Othoman Empire , 1994, pp. 353-372

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