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Place of Birth: Fegersheim, Grand Est, France
About Gustave Bloch
- Gustave Bloch (July 21, 1848, Fegersheim, Bas-Rhin – December 3, 1923) was a French Jewish historian of ancient history born in Fegersheim, a commune located in the department of Bas-Rhin.
- He was the father of historian Marc Bloch (1886–1944), who along with Lucien Febvre (1878–1956), was co-founder of the École des Annales. He received his agrégation in 1872, and during the following year began teaching classes in rhetoric at Lycée de Besançon.
- In 1876 he became a lecturer, and several years later started work as a professor of Greek and Roman antiquities at the University of Lyon.
- Beginning in 1888 he taught history at the École Normale Supérieure, where he succeeded historian Paul Guiraud [1850-1907).
- From 1904 to 1919 he was a professor of Roman history at the Faculté des lettres de Paris.
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