Nicolas Vatin

Nicolas Vatin is a French epigrapher and historian, specialist of the Ottoman Empire. François Vatin, professor of sociology at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense is his brother.

After studying at the École normale supérieure, he obtained his agrégation de lettres classiques in 1978. Between 1981 and 1983 he was a resident at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul. As of 2016, he is director of research at the CNRS and director of studies at the école pratique des hautes études.

His main research topics are the Ottoman Empire during the 15th-16th centuries, the history of Eastern Mediterranean, the succession of Ottoman sultans,

cemeteries and death and the translation and analysis of Ottoman chronicles.