Philippe Levillain
Born27 November 1940
Paris, France
Died4 October 2021(2021-10-04) (aged 80)
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Historian
Professor

Philippe Levillain (27 November 1940 – 4 October 2021) was a French historian and academic. He specialized in the history of Catholicism and the papacy and notably wrote a historic encyclopedia of the papacy.

Biography

Levillain attended the Lycée Montaigne in Bordeaux for secondary school.[1] He then studied at the École normale supérieure and earned an agrégation in history in 1965. He then served as an assistant professor at Paris Nanterre University from 1975 to 1981.[2] He defended his doctoral thesis, Le deuxième concile du Vatican et sa procédure, in 1972 under the direction of René Rémond at Paris Nanterre University.[3] He was then sent to the French School of Rome [fr], where he directed studies in modern and contemporary history from 1977 to 1981. He completed his Doctorate in France [fr] in 1979 and became a professor of contemporary history at the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III, where he stayed from 1982 to 1986. He then spent the remainder of his career at Paris Nanterre University, where he became a professor emeritus.[4][5]

Levillain was a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France from 1998 to 2003 and was also a member of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences.[6] He was elected to be a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques on 19 December 2011, succeeding the historian Pierre Chaunu. He served as President of the Société de l'histoire de France in 2012.[7] He hosted the radio show Les Lundis de l'Histoire [fr] on France Culture from 1982 to 2014.

Levillain died on 4 October 2021 at the age of 80.[8]

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Books

Collaborative books

References

  1. ^ d'Orcival, François (24 December 2020). "Mes plus belles années... d'adolescent". Le Figaro Magazine (in French).
  2. ^ "Monsieur le Professeur Philippe LEVILLAIN". Académie Catholique de France (in French). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Le deuxième concile du Vatican et sa procédure". SUDOC (in French).
  4. ^ "Carrière". ASMP (in French). Archived from the original on 17 February 2013.
  5. ^ "Philippe Levillain". ASMP (in French). Archived from the original on 10 November 2012.
  6. ^ "Philippe Levillain". Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche (in French).
  7. ^ "Agenda et nouvelles". Société de l'histoire de France (in French).
  8. ^ de Senneville, Loup Besmond (5 October 2021). "Mort de Philippe Levillain, historien majeur de la papauté". La Croix (in French). Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  9. ^ "Décret du 30 décembre 2016 portant élévation aux dignités de grand'croix et de grand officier" (PDF). Présidence de la République (in French). 1 January 2017.
  10. ^ "Levillain Prof. Philippe Georges Bernard". Presidenza della Repubblica (in Italian).


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