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Camille Jullian was a French historian, philologist, archaeologist and historian of French literature, student of Fustel de Coulanges, whose posthumous work he published.

Background

Jullian was born in Marseille.

Education

Lycée Thiers; École Normale Supérieure. French School of Rome.

Career

His major work is a multi-volume history of Gaul. He was involved with the controversy over the archaeological findings at Glozel in France. He was among those who believed the artefacts recovered were faked.

He died in Paris in 1933.

Achievements

  • He was a member of the Legion of Honour.

Membership

Académie française; Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres]

Specialising in Gaul and the Roman epoch, he was notably a student of the École Normale Supérieure, member of the École française de Rome and professor of national antiquities at the Collège de France. Jullian was elected member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1908 and the Académie française in 1924.