Jean-Rémy Palanque, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French historian
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Place of Birth: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
About Jean-Rémy Palanque
- Jean-Rémy Palanque (7 March 1898 in Marseille – 2 June 1988, Aix-en-Provence) was a professor of ancient history at the Faculty of Letters at Montpellier, then at the University of Aix-en-Provence. He was a member of the Institute, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (elected 15 November 1968) and president of the Society of Religious History of France.
- He contributed, with Henri-Irénée Marrou, to the renewal of the historical interpretation of the Roman Empire and early Christianity.
- He has translated and completed in French the works by the Austrian historian Ernst Stein, who was devoted to the history of late antiquity.
- He was awarded the Medal of the Resistance in 1945. He died in Aix-en-Provence on 2 June 1988
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