Gustave Bloch - Biography

Gustave Bloch (July 21, 1848, Fegersheim, Bas-Rhin – December 3, 1923) was a French Jewish historian of ancient history who was born in Fegersheim, a commune in the department of Bas-Rhin. He was the father of historian Marc Bloch (1886–1944), who with Lucien Febvre (1878–1956) was co-founder of the École des Annales.

He received his aggregation 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 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 in Paris.

Selected literature

• La République romaine. Les conflits politiques et sociaux, (The Roman Republic, Political and Social Conflicts), 1913
• L'Empire romain. Evolution et décadence. (The Roman Empire, Evolution and Decadence), 1922

• Rhetorical connections and networks in the nineteenth century (biographical information)
• [1] Members of École Française d'Athenes