who was marc bloch? what was his significant contribution ?
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The French historian Marc Bloch (1886-1944) was the leading French medievalist of the 20th century. He inspired two generations of historians through his teaching and writing
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Marc Bloch, in full Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch, (born July 6, 1886, Lyon, France—died June 16, 1944, near Lyon).
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Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (/ blɒk /; French: [maʁk leɔpɔld bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ blɔk]; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on Medieval France over the course of his career.
Bloch’s extraordinary services gained him an exemption from the Vichy government’s anti-Semitic legislation, enabling him to teach for two more years in southern France and compose the unfinished statement of his personal and scholarly creed, Apologise pour l’histoire; ou, métier d’historien (1949; The Historian’s Craft).
Bloch’s best-known and most accessible work, it is both a valuable guide to historical methodology and a stirring statement of a scholar’s civic responsibility. After the Nazis occupied all of France, he joined the French Resistance in 1943 and became a leader. Captured by the Vichy police in March 1944, Bloch was tortured by Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie and killed by a German firing squad.