What is Jacques Le Goff?
{{Infobox writer |name = Jacques Le Goff |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{birth date|1924|1|1|df=yes}} |birth_place = [[Toulon]], France |death_date = {{death date and age|2014|4|1|1924|1|1|df=yes}} |death_place = [[Paris]], France |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = French |ethnicity = |genre = Historian |occupation = [[Historian]], [[medievalist]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = [[École Normale Supérieure]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |prizes = |footnotes = |spouse = }} '''Jacques Le Goff''' (1 January 1924 – 1 April 2014) was a [[French people|French]] [[historian]] and author. He wrote many books about the [[Middle Ages]]. Mostly during the 12th and 13th centuries.<ref>{{cite web|author=Agence France-Presse in Paris |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/influential-french-historian-jacques-le-goff-dies |title=Influential medieval historian Jacques Le Goff dies aged 90 &#124; World news |publisher=theguardian.com |date=2014-04-01 |accessdate=2014-04-01}}</ref> Le Goff was known for arguing that the Middle Ages created a new [[civilization]]. In 1984, he wrote ''The Birth of Purgatory''. He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Le_Goff_Jacques |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Le_Goff_Jacques |title=Jacques Le Goff |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> Le Goff was born in [[Toulon]]. He died in [[Paris]], France from [[natural causes]], aged 90. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Goff, Jacques}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:French academics]] [[Category:French historians]] [[Category:Writers from Toulon]] [[Category:Members of Academia Europaea]] {{bio-stub}}