Jean Maitron

Jean Maitron was a French historian specialist of the labour movement.
Maitron is best known for his Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français, a comprehensive biographical dictionary of figures from the French workers' movement which was continued after his death, as well as a study of anarchism, History of anarchism in France, which has become a classic. Starting with the 1789 French Revolution, it includes 103,000 entries gathered by 455 different authors working under Maitron's direction. The Maitron has now extended itself with international versions, treating Austria, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, China, Morocco, United States from 1848 to 1922, a transnational one about the Komintern and the most recently published about Algeria, almost all published at the Éditions de l'Atelier.
Maitron wrote in 1950 a study on the anarchism movement in France and wrote a complementary study of Paul Delesalle, an anarcho-syndicalist. He retired in 1976 and was nominated as chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1982 and a chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1985.