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French writer
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Birth:
29 September 1926(Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Death:
12 April 2010(Paris, Île-de-France, France)
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Biography
Michel Meslin (29 September 1926, Paris – 12 April 2010, Paris) was an emeritus professor and former president of the Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). He established the Institut de Recherche pour l'Etude des Religions (IRER). A specialist in late antiquity, the history of Christianity and anthropology of religion, he published several works on these and other subjects.