Nicolas Vatin

Nicolas Vatin is a French epigrapher and historian, specializing in the study of the Ottoman Empire. His brother, , is a professor of sociology at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense r.

Career

After studying at the École normale supérieure, Vatin obtained his agrégation de lettres classiques in 1978. Between 1981 and 1983, Vatin was a resident at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul. As of 2016, Vatin is the director of research at the CNRS and director of studies at the Ecole pratique des hautes études..

Vatin's main research topics are the Ottoman Empire during the 15th-16th centuries, the history of the Eastern Mediterranean, the succession of Ottoman sultans and cemeteries and death with translations and analysis of the Ottoman chronicles.