Jean Meyer was born in France in 1942. He graduated in
History by the Superior Normal School and by Soborna School in Paris. In 1956
he went to Mexico as a researcher. Meyer has been professor at Mexico School,
at the Universities of Soborna and Perpiñan and at Michoacán School. He founded
the magazine Istor and is author of more than thirty books. With The
Great Controversy, the prestigious historian Jean Meyer was finalist in the
XVIIIth Comillas Prize.