Charles Pietri
French church historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Pietri was a 20th-century French historian and university professor. Biography A former pupil at the , 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.
