Louis Halphen

Louis Sigismond Isaac Halphen (4 February 1880 in Paris – 7 October 1950 in Paris) was a French medieval specialist and the author of many important books over a long career. He was noteworthy as the editor of a modern edition of the famous classic Einhard's "Vie de Charlemagne" (Paris, 1947), He was also known as being one of the general editors of the monumental series Peuples et civilisations.

Louis Halphen was born in Paris to mathematician Georges Henri Halphen. He married Germaine Weill, the daughter of Mathieu Weill, in 1910, with whom he had two children: Étienne and Geneviève.

Selected published books Le comté d'Anjou au XIe siècle, 1906 review by S Fanning in Speculum, 1985 "...The essential works on Anjou in this period are Louis Halphen, Le comte d'Anjou au XIe siecle (Paris, 1906) JSTOR La Conquête romaine (with A Piganiol,& P Sagnac (1926) - Presses universitaires de France Charlemagne et l'empire carolingien, 1947 translated into English as Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire, (1977) North-Holland Pub. Co translated into Spanish as Carlomagno y el imperio carolingio, Unión Tipográfica Editorial Hispano Americana (1955) Études sur l'administration de Rome au Moyen Âge (751-1252), (1972) Multigrafica Editrice À travers l'histoire du Moyen âge, (1950) - Presses universitaires de France