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Christian Ingrao

クリスティアン・アングラオ　/　くりすてぃあん・あんぐらお

Historian from France

June 13, 1970 (age 55)　・　Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France

Puy-de-Dôme
historian
university teacher

My Take

I am drawn to Ingrao because choosing war as your field of history means staring at humanity's darkest machinery for a living. As a CNRS research director within the Raymond Aron Center at the EHESS in Paris, he sits at the serious end of French scholarship, far from any spotlight. What I admire is the steadiness it must take: to interrogate atrocity rigorously without letting it numb you. Historians like him rarely trend, yet they do the patient, unglamorous work of explaining how people become capable of the unthinkable. That quiet courage of the archive earns my deep respect.

Overview

Christian Ingrao (born 13 June 1970) is a French war historian. He is a research director at CNRS within the Raymond Aron Center for Sociological and Political Studies (CESPRA) of the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Christian Ingrao
Name (Japanese): クリスティアン・アングラオ
Reading: くりすてぃあん・あんぐらお
Born: June 13, 1970 (age 55)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Gemini / Dog
Origin: Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
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Occupation: historian / university teacher

2. Background

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University: Blaise Pascal University (Clermont II)

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