Pierre Toubert

Pierre Toubert
Born29 November 1932 (1932-11-29)
Died5 June 2025(2025-06-05) (aged 92)
EducationÉcole normale supérieure
OccupationHistorian
EmployerCollège de France

Pierre Toubert (29 November 1932 – 5 June 2025) was a French historian. He was a professor of medieval history at the University of Paris and the Collège de France. Focusing on medieval history, his most monumental work is Les structures du Latium médiéval : Le Latium méridional et la Sabine du IXe siècle à la fin du XIIe siècle (1973), in which he outlines an influential, in-depth study of incastellamento (in English, encastellation) in the Lazio region of Italy.

Life and career

Pierre Toubert was born on 29 November 1932. He earned the agrégation in history and graduated from the École normale supérieure in 1958. He earned a PhD in 1972.

Toubert was an associate professor of history at the University of Paris in 1972–1973, and he became a full professor in 1973. He was also a professor of history at the Collège de France.

Toubert was inducted into the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1986. He won the Silver Medal from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in 1973, and the Prix Augustin Thierry from the Académie française in 1995. He became an officer of the National Order of Merit in 1999, and a commander in 2010.

Toubert died on 5 June 2025, at the age of 92.

Works

References

  1. 1 2 Toubert, Pierre (1932-....) forme internationale. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  2. ↑ Offenstadt, Nicolas (17 February 2005). "Le Moyen Age total de Pierre Toubert". Le Monde. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Pierre Toubert". Collège de France. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "Prix Augustin Thierry". Académie française. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Décret du 14 mai 2010 portant promotion et nomination". Legifrance. French Republic. Retrieved 22 February 2017.