Émilienne Demougeot
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Émilienne Demougeot | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1910 |
| Died | 19 June 1994 (aged 83–84) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Years active | Specialist in the history of the Late Antiquity and Early Christianity times. |
Émilienne Demougeot (1910 in Bourges – 19 June 1994 in Montpellier) was a French historian, a specialist of Late Antiquity and Early Christianity. She was one of the first women professors of history at a French university, and the first woman professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Montpellier.[1]
She attended elementary and high school in Guadeloupe from 1917 to 1922, then in Tangier in 1925–1926. Once a history teacher, she taught in high school before the war, and then as an assistant at the Sorbonne. She defended her thesis, De l’Unité à la division de l’Empire romain. Essai sur le gouvernement impérial (395-410), in 1949.[1]
She was a professor of ancient history at the Faculty of Letters of Montpellier from 1957 to her retirement in 1978. She won the Prix Thérouanne in 1952 for her work, De l’unité à la division de l'Empire Romain.[2] With the prize she was awarded 2,000 francs. She left a great work especially the monumental Formation de l’Europe et les invasions barbares. She bequeathed her library to the library of ancient history of the Paul-Valéry University in Montpellier.
