Christian Amalvi

Christian Amalvi (born 23 April 1954) is a French archivist, historian and academic, specialising in contemporary historiography. He taught at the Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier from 1991 to 2023.
==Life==
Born in Montauban, he attended the École des chartes from 1974 to 1978, graduating as an archivist-palaeographer. He was a curator at the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1978 to 1991. .
From 1991 onwards he taught at the Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier, initially (1991-1998) as a maître de conférences. In 1994 he defended a doctoral thesis entitled L’Histoire pour tous : la Vulgarisation historique d’Augustin Thierry à Ernest Lavisse, 1814 - 1914 (History for all : the popularisation of history from Augustin Thierry to Ernest Lavisse, 1814 - 1914) and was made a professor of contemporary history, succeeded Charles-Olivier Carbonell (his thesis supervisor) in the historiography chair. Christian Amalvi retired in January 2023. and the same year became a member of the Academie des sciences et lettres de Montpellier since 2023.
==Work==
Amalavi's 1978 thesis at the École des Chartes was entitled La « galerie des hommes illustres » de l’histoire de France dans l’enseignement primaire de 1833 à 1914 (The "Gallery of Famous Men" from French history in primary education from 1833 to 1914.. In 1979 he used that thesis to publish his first work dedicated to the iconography of scholarly heroes in French history during the Third Republic, analysing that iconography as part of a national mythology.Philippe Joutard, « Histoire et mémoire », in Yann Potin and Jean-François Sirinelli, Générations historiennes : xixe – xxie siècle, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2019, 800 p. (ISBN 9782271121479), p. 719-737.
In 1988 Amalvi published a book entitled De l'art et la manière d'accommoder les héros de l'histoire de France, made up of seven different studies on the representation of heroes and of historical episodes in national history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Robert John Morrissey, « Christian Amalvi, De l'art et de la manière d'accommoder les héros de l'histoire de France », Romantisme, vol. 20, no 70, 1990, p. 103–104. His 1996 work Le goût du Moyen ge examined the historiographical destiny of major figures from the Middle AgesSophie-Anne Leterrier, « Christian Amalvi, Le goût de l'histoire, 1996 », Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle - 1848, vol. 15, no 2, 1997, p. 121–122 and examined the public's interest in that period, which he associated initially with history teaching at primary level. Patrick Fraysse, « Les mises en scène du Moyen ge dans les fêtes populaires médiévales: », Communication & langages, vol. N° 191, no 1, 1 March 2017, p. 29–50 In 2001 he published Répertoire des auteurs de manuels scolaires et de livres de vulgarisation historique de langue française de 1660 à 1960
Amalvi was also a member of the Haut comité des commémorations nationales, established in 1998 as the Haut comité aux célébrations nationalesPhilippe-Georges Richard, « Les commémorations nationales : une mission du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication », Gazette des archives, vol. 236, no 4, 2014, p. 17–27 He and nine other members of that committee (Marie-Laure Bernadac, Gilles Cantagrel, Nicole Garnier, Claude Gauvard, Robert Halleux, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, Évelyne Lever, Pascal Ory and Jacques Perot) resigned in a joint open letter published in Le Monde in March 2018. He also protested against the Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen's decision to remove Charles Maurras's name from the Livre des commémorations nationales 2018.
In 2004 he edited the Dictionnaire biographique des historiens français et francophones.
==Publications==
===As author===
* Alain Choppin, « Christian Amalvi & Alice Gérard (preface), "Les Héros de l'histoire de France : recherche iconographique sur le panthéon scolaire de la Troisième République." Paris, Phot'œil, 1979 », Histoire de l'éducation, vol. 6, no 1, 1980, p. 70
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category:1954 births
category:People from Montauban
category:Living people
category:French archivists
Category:Academic staff of the University of Montpellier