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Hélène d'Almeida-Topor
Born2 October 1932
Died1 August 2020(2020-08-01) (aged 87)
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Historian
Professor

Hélène d'Almeida-Topor (2 October 1932 – 1 August 2020) was a French historian and university professor of contemporary history.[1]

Biography

Her father, Abram Topor, was a French artist of Polish origin who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Her brother, Roland Topor, was also an artist and a writer. Earning an agrégation in history and geography in 1959,[2] d'Almeida-Topor taught in Porto-Novo, Benin from 1960 to 1970. She also taught in Lomé, Togo for several years.[3] Subsequently, she became a lecturer at Paris-Est Créteil University. In 1987, d'Almeida-Topor defended a thesis titled "Histoire économique du Dahomey (1890-1920)" at Paris-Sorbonne University under the supervision of Jean Ganiage. She was a professor at the University of Lorraine from 1988 to 1994 before working at University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne until 2003, when she became professor emeritus. Her son, Fabrice d'Almeida, would also become a historian.

Hélène d'Almeida-Topor died on 1 August 2020 at the age of 87.[4]

Publications

  • Les Amazones. Une armée de femmes dans l'Afrique précoloniale (1984)[5]
  • Les Transports en Afrique xixe – xxe siècle (1992)
  • L'Afrique au xxe siècle (1993)
  • L'Europe et l'Afrique, un siècle d'échanges économiques (1994)
  • Histoire économique du Dahomey. 1890-1920 (1995)
  • Le travail en Afrique noire. Représentations et pratiques à l'époque contemporaine (2003)
  • Le Goût de l'étranger, les saveurs venues d'ailleurs depuis la fin du xviiie siècle (2006)
  • L'Afrique (2006)
  • L'Afrique du 20e siècle à nos jours (2013)

Distinction

  • President of the Société française d’histoire des outre-mers,[6] Honorary President in 2011[7]

References

  1. ^ "Fabrice d'Almeida". Twitter (in French). 1 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Les agrégés de l'enseignement secondaire. Répertoire 1809-1960". Ressources numériques en histoire de l'éducation (in French).
  3. ^ Barthélémy, Pascale (2013). Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices (in French). Paris: Éditions des femmes. ISBN 9782721006516.
  4. ^ "Histoire économique du Dahomey (Bénin) (1890-1920)". Persée (in French). 1996.
  5. ^ "Les Amazones. Une armée de femmes dans l'Afrique précoloniale". BnF Gallica (in French). 1984.
  6. ^ "D'ALMEIDA-TOPOR Hélène". SFHOM (in French).
  7. ^ "Editorial - Assemblée générale 2011". Persée (in French). 2011.