Georges Duby

French historian (1919-1996) · France · On the map · Writers · Died at 77

Georges Duby was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s to his death.

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1996Died3 December 19961995Grand Cross of the National Order of MeritAward1992Honorary Doctorate of the University of Santiago de CompostelaAward1977Grand Prix GobertAward1973Ambassadors' PrizeAward1970Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of AmericaAward1963Prix GobertAward1954Prix GobertAward1919Born7 October 1919

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