Der Mensch: Drei Millionen Jahre, achtzig Milliarden Schicksale (Reihe ars historica)

by Pierre Chaunu

German (translation)Original French

351 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1996

About the author

Pierre Chaunu was a French historian. His specialty was Latin American history; he also studied French social and religious history of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. A leading figure in French quantitative history as the founder of "serial history", he was professor emeritus at Paris IV-Sorbonne, a member of the Institut de France, and a commander of the Légion d'Honneur. A convert to Protestantism from Roman Catholicism, he defended his Gaullist views most notably in a longtime column in Le Figaro and on Radio Courtoisie.