Charles Pietri
{{Short description|French historian (1932–1991)}}
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Charles Pietri (18 April 1932 – 7 August 1991) was a 20th-century French historian and university professor.
Biography
A former pupil at the {{Interlanguage link|Lycée Thiers|fr}}, Pietri entered the École normale supérieure in 1952 and obtained his agrégation d'histoire. He spent some times at the École française de Rome. In 1961, he was a research associate at the CNRS, and was an assistant at the Sorbonne from 1963 to 1966. He then became an assistant professor at the University of Lille, then a lecturer at Paris-Nanterre. He dedicated his doctoral thesis, published in 1976, to the study of Roma Christiana from 311 to 440. In 1975, he succeeded Henri-Irénée Marrou and held the chair of history of Christianity at the University Paris-Sorbonne. From 1983 to 1991 he was director of the École de Rome. On 17 November 1989, he was elected a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.{{Cite journal|url=http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/crai_0065-0536_1991_num_135_3_15005|title=Allocution à l'occasion du décès de M. Charles Pietri, correspondant français de l'Académie|journal=Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres|year=1991|volume=135|issue=3|pages=512–513|last1=Chamoux|first1=François}}
Work
With his wife Luce Pietri, Jean-Marie Mayeur, André Vauchez and Marc Venard, Pietri initiated a monumental Histoire du christianisme des origines à nos jours, published from 1992 to 2001 at {{Interlanguage link|Éditions Desclée de Brouwer|fr}} and meant to replace the Histoire de l’Église by Augustin Fliche. He also directed, with Luce Pietri, the second volume of the Prosopographie chrétienne du bas-empire on Italy (2000), an endeavour started by Jean-Rémy Palanque and Henri-Irénée Marrou. Contributors to the two-volume prosopography on Italy included Janine Desmulliez, Christine Friasse-Coué, Élisabeth Paoli-Lafaye, Charles Pietri, Luce Pietri, and Claire Sotinel.
Pietri authored other works and articles fundamental to the historic understanding of ancient Christianity:
- Le Monde latin antique et la Bible, with Jacques Fontaine, vol. II of the series "Bible de tous les temps", 1985
- Christiana respublica : éléments d'une enquête sur le christianisme antique, series of the École Française de Rome, 1997
Honours
- Chevalier, Légion d'honneur
- Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- Officier, Ordre national des lettres
- Officier, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Commander, Order of St Gregory the Great
- Member of the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology{{Cite journal|url=http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/mefr_0223-5102_1991_num_103_2_1721|doi = 10.3406/mefr.1991.1721|title = Charles Pietri (1932-1991)|year = 1991|last1 = Guyon|first1 = Jean|journal = Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome. Antiquité|volume = 103|issue = 2|pages = 369–375}}
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Category:Writers from Marseille
Category:École Normale Supérieure alumni
Category:20th-century French historians
Category:French Democratic Confederation of Labour members
Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour
Category:Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great
Category:Officers of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic