Marc Bloch
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on medieval France over the course of his career.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- 2nd arrondissement of Lyon
- Educated at
- École Normale SupérieureLeipzig UniversityLycée Louis-le-GrandUniversity of Strasbourg
- Awards
- 🏆 Knight of the Legion of Honour🏆 Resistance Medal🏆 Croix de guerre 1939–1945🏆 Croix de guerre 1914–1918🏆 mort pour la France
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Christian Pfister
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 François Chevalier
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Successive technological revolutions have immeasurably widened the psychological gap between generations. With some reason, perhaps, the man of the age of electricity and of the airplane feels himself…"
"Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant …"
"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies."
"Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge."
"There is no true understanding without a certain range of comparison."
"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavour toward better understanding."
Works & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1886
Born
Birth1944
Died
Death
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped Marc's philosophy
No known influences documented.
Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by Marc's ideas
No influenced thinkers documented yet.
Source Attribution
Information about Marc Bloch is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Related Thinkers
See all →
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Franz Boas Papers at the American Philosophical Society"
— Franz Boas"Nothing was inevitable. People made choices. Everything was in flux. It could have gone so many different w…"
— Kanan Makiya"Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into an…"
— Camille Paglia"What does cultural pluralism signify in the absence of economic pluralism? Perhaps the question seems meani…"
— Russell Jacoby"Did you figure out the head fake? It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your li…"
— Randy Pausch"Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powe…"
— Camille Paglia
