![]() It seems safe to assume, however, that Braudel wrote the largest part ![]() He sent the filled booklets to his master Lucien Febvre after oneĪnother. He allegedly wrote on schoolboy booklets on a corner of a table without anyĭocumentation, by tapping into the vast knowledge he had accumulated over years During five years, as a prisoner in Germany, Later said that he took advantage of his captivity to write what would become He was captured by the Germans and spent 5 years as a prisoner in Germany. ![]() ![]() He became a disciple of Lucien Febvre (1878-1956), a professor of history at Collège de France, attempting to depart from traditional event-based historiography to focus more on economic and social history in a long-term perspective. Upon his return to France, in 1937, Braudel worked at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. ![]() Later he went to Brazil and taught during 3 years as a professor at University of Sao Paulo, an institution founded with the help of France. After completing his history education in Paris, Braudel spent 10 years teaching in high schools in Algeria, then a French colony. One of the greatest French historians of the XXth century, Fernand Braudel co-founded the French school of social and economic history of civilizations.įernand Braudel was born on 24 August 1902 in Northeastern France. ![]()
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