Noël Duval (24 December 1929, Le Chesnay – 12 December 2018, Paris) was a French archaeologist.
Biography
In 1953 Duval started working as a researcher and for three consecutive years worked at the Roman Historical Institute. He was a member of French National Centre for Scientific Research, École du Louvre and worked at the University of Nantes, Lille and Fribourg in Switzerland. In 1960 he became interested in both Hispanic and Catalan archaeology and by 1976 he became a professor at Paris-Sorbonne University where he taught Late Antiquity and Byzantinian Art in Middle Ages. He worked there until 1992 and then became a member of Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres in Barcelona, Spain. Since 1990, he focused himself on Augustan History and by 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva. Later in his career he taught archaeology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Duval was elected as an emeritis professor fellow at the University of Paris in 2007.
Duval married historian Yvette Duval in 1954.
Honours and awards
Honours
Knight of the Legion of Honour (France) Officier of the National Order of Merit (France) Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France) Gold Medal of the city of Split (Croatia) Medal of the city of Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia)
Awards
CNRS Silver Medal
CNRS Bronze Medal
Bronze and Silver Medals of the Académie d'architecture
Prize of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Frend Medal of Christian Archeology of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Acknowledgement
Member of the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology
Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona
Member of the German Archaeological Institute
Member of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Associate Member of the British Academy
Honorary degrees
1994 : University of Geneva
2000 : Autonomous University of Barcelona
Main publications
Les églises africaines à deux absides, 2 vols, Rome, CEFR, 1971 and 1973
Les ruines de Sufetula-Sbeitla (with F. Baratte), Tunis, éd. STD, 1973
Haïdra, les ruines d'Ammaedara (with F. Baratte), Tunis, éd. STD, 1974
Haïdra I. Les inscriptions chrétiennes d'Haïdra (with F. Prévot), Rome, CEFR, 1975 Catalogue des mosaïques romaines et paléochrétiennes du Musée du Louvre (with F. Baratte), Rome, CEFR, 1978 Sirmium VII et VIII (Direction with V. Popovic), Rome, CEFR, 1977 and 1978 Catalogue des mosaïques romaines et paléochrétiennes du Musée du Louvre (with F. Baratte), Paris, Réunions des musées nationaux, 1978 Haïdra II, L'église I dite de Melléus [under the direction], Rome, CEFR, 1981 Inventaire des basiliques chrétiennes d'Afrique du Nord : Inventaire des monuments de l'Algérie, 2 vols (with Isabelle Gui et Jean-Pierre Caillet), Paris, Collection des Études augustiniennes, 1992 Salona I, recherches archéologiques franco-croates à Salone [under the direction], Rome, CEFR, 1994 Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France, Paris, Éditions A et J Picard, 1995 Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France II, Paris, Éditions A and J Picard, 1996 Salona II, Rome, CEFR, 1996 Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France III, Paris, Éditions A and J Picard, 1998 Les mosaïques funéraires d'une église de Pupput (with Aïcha Ben Abed), Paris, CNRS, 1998 Salona III, Rome, CEFR, 2000 L'Historiae Augustae Colloquium I de la nouvelle série, (with G. Bonamente), Bari, Edipuglia, 2000 Actes de la journée d'études sur les églises de Jordanie et leurs mosaïques [under the direction], Beirut, Institut français du Proche-Orient, 200313 Haïdra IV, L'église de Candidus ou des martyrs de la persécution de Dioclétien (co-edition with F. Baratte), Rome, CEFR, 2010 La nouvelle Carte des voies romaines de l'Est de l'Africa dans l'Antiquité Tardive d'après les travaux de P. Salama (Direction with Claude Lepelley and Jehan Desanges), Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 Caričin Grad III. L'Acropole et ses monuments [under the direction], Rome, CEFR, 2010 Salona IV : Recherches archéologiques franco-croates à Salone, Inscriptions de Salone chrétienne, IVe-VIIe siècles (vol. I et II), (with Emilio Marin, Jean-Pierre Caillet, Denis Feissel, Nancy Gauthier et Françoise Prévot), Rome, CEFR, 2010 Basiliques chrétiennes d'Afrique du Nord. II, Monuments de la Tunisie (with François Baratte & Fathi Bejaoui), Bordeaux, Ausonius, 2015