André Dupont (historian)
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André Dupont (1897 – 16 September 1972) was a French historian.
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Biography
André Dupont was born in 1897 in Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort. He became a doctor of history in 1942. A "Nîmese by adoption" (he did his secondary studies at the Lycée de garçons), Dupont created the chair of history of Languedoc at the Faculty des Letters of Montpellier, where he was a lecturer (1931), a senior lecturer (1942) and then a professor (1946). In 1951, he succeeded Augustin Fliche in the chair of medieval history and archaeology. He retired in 1967.
A specialist in medieval urban life in Languedoc, he also devotes a "beautifully crafted" portrait to Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne.
As Protestant, he was a member of the committee of the Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français until 1964. Elected to the Academy of Nîmes in 1945, he presided over it in 1953. He also presided over the Fédération historique du Languedoc méditerranéen et du Roussillon.
He died in September 1972, and was buried in his native village.
Works
- Les Cités de la Narbonnaise Première depuis les invasions germaniques jusqu'à l'apparition du Consulat (1942)
- Rabaut Saint-Etienne (1743-1793) (1946)
- La Faculté des lettres de Montpellier: sept siècles d'histoire (1946)
References
- Boisset, Jean (1972). "André Dupont (1897-1972)," Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français, Vol. CXVIII, pp. 778–83.
- Vidal, Henri (1973). "André Dupont (1897-1972)", Annales du Midi, Vol. CXII, No. 85, pp. 249–50.
