Madeleine Jurgens
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Madeleine Jurgens | |
|---|---|
| Born | Madeleine Marie Connat December 19, 1919 |
| Died | January 7, 2022 (aged 102) |
| Occupation | archivist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | École Nationale des Chartes |
| Thesis | Étude sur les inventaires après décès de Paris (1500-1560) (1942) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archival science |
| Sub-discipline | Paleography, Curator |
| Institutions | Archives Nationales (France) |
Madeleine Jurgens (1919–2022) was a French archivist and historian.[1] Born Madeleine Marie Connat on December 19, 1919, in Créteil, she graduated from the École Nationale des Chartes in 1942.[2] Her thesis focused on the estate inventories of Parisians during the first half of the sixteenth century.[3] She was hired as a curator at the national archives in 1943 and was later promoted to in 1957.[2] She was named an honorary curator in 1984.[2]
Jurgens was the president of local historical preservation association for the town of Créteil for many years.[2] She was also made a chevalier des Palmes académiques in 1954, a chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1967, an officier du Mérite in 1972 and an officier des Arts et Lettres in 1979.[2] In 1988, she received the prix de la foundation Coyecque-Roze de l'Académie des inscriptions et belle-lettres.[2]
