Paul Gaffarel

Paul Louis Jacques Gaffarel (2 October 1843 – 27 December 1920) was a French historian. A prolific writer, he devoted many works to Marseille, to colonial facts and to French colonial domains.

Biography

Paul Gaffarel was born in Moulins, capital of the Allier department, the son of Joseph Gaffarel, inspector of the Academy of Montpellier, Knight of the Legion of Honour and recipient of the Saint Helena Medal.

Educated at the Lycée Thiers and the École normale supérieure, agrégé of history and geography in 1865, an extraordinary year in which he rubbed shoulders with Gabriel Monod, Ernest Lavisse and Edgar Zévort, Gaffarel received his doctorate in 1869 (Study on the relations between America and the old continent before Christopher Columbus).

He taught in several secondary schools and universities, notably at the Lycée Thiers, at the Faculty of Letters in Montpellier, then in Dijon, of which he became dean.

He received the insignia of Knight of the Legion of Honor on January 12, 1900.

References

• Pim den Boer, "Professorial Misfits." In: History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914. Princeton: Princeton University Press (1998), pp. 249–50.
• Pierre Guiral & Félix Reynaud, Les Marseillais dans l'Histoire. Toulouse: Privat (1988)

External links

• Works by Paul Gaffarel at Hathi Trust
• Works by Paul Gaffarel at Open Library
• Works by Paul Gaffarel at Gallica