Lucien Febvre (July 22, 1878, Nancy - Saint-Amour, Jura, September
11, 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales
School of history.
Born in Nancy, Febvre was influenced early on by geographer Vidal de la Blache during his time at the Ecole
Normale Superieure (1899-1902) and earned his doctorate in history in 1911 after submitting a thesis on
Phillip the Second and the Franche-Comté. Shortly thereafter he took a position at the University of Dijon.
Febvre fought in World War I and took up a position at the University of Strasbourg in 1919 when the province was returned to France. In 1929, he founded the journal Annales d'histoire, économique et sociale with Marc Bloch, from which the name of their distinctive style of history was taken. In 1933 Febvre was appointed
to a chair at the Collège de France. He published vigorously throughout the
thirties and early forties, although World War II interrupted his work. The war also
resulted in the death of Marc Bloch, and so Febvre became the man who carried the Annales into the post-war period, most notably
by training Fernand Braudel and cofounding the VI section of the
École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, later known as
EHESS. Febvre died in 1956.
Works by Lucien Febvre
- Martin Luther, A Destiny
- The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800
- The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: The Religion of Rabelais
- A Geographical Introduction to History
- A New Kind of History (selected essays)
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