Gustave Bloch (21 July 1848 – 3 December 1923) was a French Jewish historian of ancient history. He was the father of historian Marc Bloch (1886–1944), who along with Lucien Febvre (1878–1956) was co-founder of the École des Annales.

Biographical sketch

Born in Fegersheim, Bas-Rhin, Bloch received his agrégation in 1872, and during the following year began teaching classes in rhetoric at Lycée de Besançon. In 1876, he became a lecturer, and several years later started work as a professor of Greek and Roman antiquities at the University of Lyon. Beginning in 1888, he taught history at the École Normale Supérieure, where he succeeded historian Paul Guiraud [1850–1907). From 1904 to 1919, he was a professor of Roman history at the Faculté des lettres de Paris.

Selected writings