Jean Glénisson

Jean Glénisson (25 January 1921 – 9 October 2010) was a French historian, archivist and paleographer.

Career

 * Degree in literature at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, (1940)
 * Studies at the École nationale des chartes
 * Archivist paleographer (1946)
 * Member of the École française de Rome (1946–1948)
 * Curator at the Archives nationales (1950–1952), responsible for the Trésor des Chartes
 * Head of the Archives of the French Equatorial Africa library in Brazzaville (1952–1957)
 * Professor of historiography at the University of São Paulo in Brazil
 * Chargé de conférences (1959–1963) then director of studies at the VIe section of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) (1963)
 * Director of the (1964 to 1986)
 * Member of the International Committee of Latin paleography, successor of Jeanne Vielliard as director of the IRHT (1966–1992).