Jean Glénisson (25 January 1921 – 9 October 2010) was a French historian, archivist and paleographer.^[1]

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Jean Glénisson
Born	25 January 1921 Jonzac
Died	9 October 2010(2010-10-09) (aged 89)
Occupation(s)	Historian Archivist Paleographer

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• Degree in literature at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, (1940)
• Studies at the École nationale des chartes
• Archivist paleographer (1946)
• Member of the École française de Rome (1946–1948)
• Curator at the Archives nationales (1950–1952), responsible for the Trésor des Chartes
• Head of the Archives of the French Equatorial Africa library in Brazzaville (1952–1957)
• Professor of historiography at the University of São Paulo in Brazil
• Chargé de conférences (1959–1963) then director of studies at the VIe section of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) (1963)^[2][3]
• Director of the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes [fr] (1964 to 1986)
• Member of the International Committee of Latin paleography, successor of Jeanne Vielliard as director of the IRHT (1966–1992).^[4]