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Charles Pietri

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Charles Pietri
Born18 April 1932
Marseille, France
Died7 August 1991(1991-08-07) (aged 59)
Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)Historian, professor

Charles Pietri (18 April 1932 – 7 August 1991) was a 20th-century French historian and university professor.

Biography

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A former pupil at the Lycée Thiers [fr], Pietri entered the École normale supérieure in 1952 and obtained his agrégation d'histoire. He spent some times at the École française de Rome. In 1961, he was a research associate at the CNRS, and was an assistant at the Sorbonne from 1963 to 1966. He then became an assistant professor at the University of Lille, then a lecturer at Paris-Nanterre. He dedicated his doctoral thesis, published in 1976, to the study of Roma Christiana from 311 to 440. In 1975, he succeeded Henri-Irénée Marrou and held the chair of history of Christianity at the University Paris-Sorbonne. From 1983 to 1991 he was director of the École de Rome. On 17 November 1989, he was elected a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.[1]

Work

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With his wife Luce Pietri, Jean-Marie Mayeur, André Vauchez and Marc Venard, Pietri initiated a monumental Histoire du christianisme des origines à nos jours, published from 1992 to 2001 at Éditions Desclée de Brouwer [fr] and meant to replace the Histoire de l’Église by Augustin Fliche. He also directed, with Luce Pietri, the second volume of the Prosopographie chrétienne du bas-empire on Italy (2000), an endeavour started by Jean-Rémy Palanque and Henri-Irénée Marrou. Contributors to the two-volume prosopography on Italy included Janine Desmulliez, Christine Friasse-Coué, Élisabeth Paoli-Lafaye, Charles Pietri, Luce Pietri, and Claire Sotinel.

Pietri authored other works and articles fundamental to the historic understanding of ancient Christianity:

  • Le Monde latin antique et la Bible, with Jacques Fontaine, vol. II of the series "Bible de tous les temps", 1985
  • Christiana respublica : éléments d'une enquête sur le christianisme antique, series of the École Française de Rome, 1997

Honours

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References

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  1. ^ Chamoux, François (1991). "Allocution à l'occasion du décès de M. Charles Pietri, correspondant français de l'Académie". Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 135 (3): 512–513.
  2. ^ Guyon, Jean (1991). "Charles Pietri (1932-1991)". Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome. Antiquité. 103 (2): 369–375. doi:10.3406/mefr.1991.1721.