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Gilbert Dagron (January 26, 1932 - August 4, 2015, Paris, France) was a French historian, Byzantine scholar, professor at the College de France (1975-2001), president of the International Association for Byzantine Studies, member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Arts.
In 1956 he graduated from the École Normale Supérieure with a degree in classical literature. In 1956-1957 he taught at the Lyceum in Lana.
Since 1960, an employee of the Directorate for Culture and Technology of the French Foreign Ministry. In 1962-1964 he worked as a cultural attaché at the French Embassy in Moscow.
Since 1969 - Assistant Professor of the History of the Middle Ages at the Sorbonne University. In 1972 he received a doctorate in philology and the humanities. Since 1975 professor of history and civilization of the Byzantine world at the College de France. Since 1994 - an ordinary member of the French Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Arts. 1997-2000 - Administrator of the College de France, President of the Assembly of Professors. President of the Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Arts (2003).
In 1991, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens awarded the title of Doctor honoris causa.
Member of the Academy of Athens, Accademia dei Lincei (Rome), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of French scientific associations of late antiquity, medieval studies.
Died on August 4, 2015. The farewell ceremony took place on August 10 at the Church of Saint Leon, in the XV arrondissement of Paris.
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Dominique Briquel is a French scholar, a specialist of archaeology and etruscology. Briquel studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1964 to 1969 and was a member of the École française de Rome from 1971 to 1974. Since 1974 he taught Latin at the École Normale Supérieure. From 1984 to 1996 he was a professor of Latin at the University of Burgundy in Dijon. Since 1992, he has been Director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études, in the department of historical and philological sciences and since 1996, professor of Latin at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne.
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