Émilienne Demougeot

Émilienne Demougeot (1910, Bourges – 19 June 1994, Montpellier) was a French historian, a specialist of Late Antiquity and Early Christianity. She was one of the first women professors of history at a French university, and the first woman professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Montpellier.[1]

Émilienne Demougeot
Born1910 (1910)
Bourges
Died19 June 1994(1994-06-19) (aged 83–84)
Montpellier
NationalityFrench
OccupationHistorian
Years activeSpecialist in the history of the Late Antiquity and Early Christianity times.

Life

She attended elementary and high school in Guadeloupe from 1917 to 1922, then in Tangier in 1925–1926. Once a history teacher, she taught in high school before the war, and then as an assistant at the Sorbonne. She defended her thesis, De l’Unité à la division de l’Empire romain. Essai sur le gouvernement impérial (395-410), in 1949.[1]

She was a professor of ancient history at the Faculty of Letters of Montpellier from 1957 to her retirement in 1978. She won the Prix Thérouanne in 1952 for her work, De l’unité à la division de l'Empire Romain.[2] With the prize she was awarded 2,000 francs. She left a great work especially the monumental Formation de l’Europe et les invasions barbares. She bequeathed her library to the library of ancient history of the Paul-Valéry University in Montpellier.

References
  1. "Émilienne DEMOUGEOT (1910 - 1994)". CRISES (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  2. "Émilienne DEMOUGEOT". Académie française (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-22.

Bibliography
  • 1988: L'Empire romain et les Barbares d'Occident (IVe-VIIe siècle) : scripta varia (in French). Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. p. 420. ISBN 2-859-44177-8.
  • 1982: Le Colosse de Barletta, Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Antiquité, T. 94, n°2, 1982, p. 951-978 read on Persée
  • 1980: in collaboration with Michel Christol, André Chastagnol, Mélanges de numismatique, d'archéologie et d'histoire : Offerts à Jean Lafaurie, Société française de numismatique, 286 pages
  • 1969: La Formation de l'Europe et les invasions barbares. Collection historique (in French). Vol. I. Paris: Aubier. p. 616., online, online.
  • 1969: La Formation de l'Europe et les invasions barbares. Collection historique (in French). Vol. II. Paris: Aubier. p. 410. ISBN 2-7007-0146-1.
  • 1969: La Formation de l'Europe et les invasions barbares. Collection historique (in French). Vol. III. Aubier. 1979. p. 519. ISBN 2-7007-0146-1.
  • 1968: Remarques sur les débuts du culte impérial en Narbonnaise (Offprint from Provence historique, v. 18, fasc. 71) [The Sackler Library, University of Oxford, has a signed copy of this text)
  • 1954: 'A propos des interventions du pape Innocent Ier dans la politique séculière' (Presses Universitaires de France) Revue historique [offprint] pp. 23–38
  • 1953: Notes sur l'évacuation des troupes romaines en Alsace au début du Ve siècle (Delle: [Institut des hautes études alsaciennes])
  • 1951: De l'unité à la division de l'Empire romain, Paris, Adrien-Maisonneuve, 618 pages
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