Alain Besançon
French historian (1932–2023) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alain Besançon (25 April 1932 – 9 July 2023) was a French historian.[1] He specialised in intellectual history and Russian politics. From 1965 to 1992 he was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.[2]: 98 [1] He was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France in 1996.[1]
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Born | (1932-04-25)25 April 1932 |
Died | 9 July 2023(2023-07-09) (aged 91) |
Occupation | Historian |
Awards | Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, 1996 |
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Discipline | History |
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Institutions | École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris |
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His book L'Image interdite, une histoire intellectuelle de l'iconoclasme (1994) was translated into English as The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm in 2000 and published by the University of Chicago Press.[2][3]
Besançon died on 9 July 2023, at the age of 91.[4]