Luc Brisson

Luc Brisson
Born(1946-03-10)March 10, 1946
Saint-Esprit, Quebec, Canada
OccupationHistorian of philosophy
AwardsCNRS Bronze medal
HonorsFellow of Lincean Academy and Royal Society of Canada

Luc Brisson (born 10 March 1946 in Saint-Esprit, Quebec) is a Canadian (and from 1986 also French) historian of philosophy and anthropologist of antiquity. He is emeritus director of research at the CNRS in France,[1] and is considered by some of his colleagues and students to be the greatest contemporary scholar on Platonism.[2]

  1. ^ Author page at the University of Chicago Press. Personal page at CNRS.
  2. ^ “Le plus grand spécialiste de Platon”.