Charles Pietri (18 April 1932 – 7 August 1991) was a 20th-century French historian and university professor.
Charles Pietri
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| Born | 18 April 1932
Marseille, France
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| Died | 7 August 1991(1991-08-07) (aged 59)
Rome, Italy
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| Occupation(s) | Historian, professor |
A former pupil at the Lycée Thiers [fr], Pietri entered the École normale supérieure in 1952 and obtained his agrégation d'histoire. He spent some times at the École française de Rome. In 1961, he was a research associate at the CNRS, and was an assistant at the Sorbonne from 1963 to 1966. He then became an assistant professor at the University of Lille, then a lecturer at Paris-Nanterre. He dedicated his doctoral thesis, published in 1976, to the study of Roma Christiana from 311 to 440. In 1975, he succeeded Henri-Irénée Marrou and held the chair of history of Christianity at the University Paris-Sorbonne. From 1983 to 1991 he was director of the École de Rome. On 17 November 1989, he was elected a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.[1]
With his wife Luce Pietri, Jean-Marie Mayeur, André Vauchez and Marc Venard, Pietri initiated a monumental Histoire du christianisme des origines à nos jours, published from 1992 to 2001 at Éditions Desclée de Brouwer [fr] and meant to replace the Histoire de l’ÉglisebyAugustin Fliche. He also directed, with Luce Pietri, the second volume of the Prosopographie chrétienne du bas-empire on Italy (2000), an endeavour started by Jean-Rémy Palanque and Henri-Irénée Marrou. Contributors to the two-volume prosopography on Italy included Janine Desmulliez, Christine Friasse-Coué, Élisabeth Paoli-Lafaye, Charles Pietri, Luce Pietri, and Claire Sotinel.
Pietri authored other works and articles fundamental to the historic understanding of ancient Christianity:
education
history
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