Jean Vezin
Jean Vezin (30 July 1933,[1] Vannes) is a French librarian and medievalist historian, specializing in Latin palaeography and codicology.
Biography
A student at the École Nationale des Chartes, Jean Vezin obtained the archivist palaeographer diploma in 1958 with a thesis entitled Les scriptoria d’Angers au XIe siècle[2] then joined the Casa de Velázquez.
A curator at the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1962 to 1974, he also taught palaeography at the Institute for Latin Studies of the Paris-Sorbonne University, as well as palaeography and codicology at the École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques.
In 1974, he was elected a research director at the École pratique des hautes études. He is codirector of the Chartæ Latinæ Antiquiores and the Monumenta palæographica Medii Ævi.
He also headed the librarians-documentalists school of the Institut catholique de Paris from 1985 to 1998.
The author of more than two hundred articles, Vezin was elected a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres on 21 November 1997.[3]
References
External links
- La répartition du travail dans les « scriptoria » carolingiens on Persée
- Doctor honoris causa Jean Vézin
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- People from Vannes
- 1933 births
- Living people
- French medievalists
- French palaeographers
- French librarians
- Latin–French translators
- École pratique des hautes études faculty
- Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- École Nationale des Chartes alumni
- Corresponding members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres