When was François-Xavier Dillmann born?
François-Xavier Dillmann was born on the 27th of November 1949. He pursued his education across seven different European universities including Lille, Uppsala, Copenhagen, Iceland, Göttingen, Munich and Caen.
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François-Xavier Dillmann was born on the 27th of November 1949. He pursued his education across seven different European universities including Lille, Uppsala, Copenhagen, Iceland, Göttingen, Munich and Caen.
François-Xavier Dillmann received a Ph.D. in Germanic studies at Caen University in 1976 and a second doctorate in Scandinavian philology in 1986. His first thesis focused on runes within Old Norse literature while the second covered Old Norse religion.
Since 1988 François-Xavier Dillmann has held the Chair of History and Philology of Ancient and Medieval Scandinavia at the École pratique des hautes études. This position is located within the 4th Section of that institution.
Gallimard published Dillmann's translation of Snorri Sturluson's Edda in 1991 under the series L'aube des peuples. The publisher also released his annotated history of Norwegian kings titled Heimskringla in 2000 as part of the same series.
In 2006 Dillmann published research on magic within ancient Iceland with the title Les magiciens dans l'Islande ancienne. Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svenk folkkultur issued this extensive study as part of Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi XCII.