Olivier Corpet
French archivist (1949-2020)
Olivier Corpet (4 September 1949 – 6 October 2020) was a French author and writer. He was co-founder, then director of the Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives for 24 years.
Biography
Corpet was born in Paris on 4 September 1949. He was the grandson of the musical critic Robert Brussel, and the great-grandson of Lucien Corpet, founder of Corpet-Louvet. Olivier studied economics and sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, where he defended a thesis on social sciences, devoted to the scientific journal titled Arguments published by Les Éditions de Minuit from 1956 to 1962.
Corpet began working as an engineer for the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He then began his professional career as a writer in the early 1970s for Autogestion, which discussed historical and theoretical research on self-management. In 1980, he changed the name of the magazine, adding an "s" to the end to make it Autogestions. Corpet succeeded Yvon Bourdet as director of the journal until his retirement from Autogestions in 1986.
In 1985, Corpet created a research group on scientific journals at the Maison des Sciences de l'homme Paris-Nord.
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