Étienne de La Vaissière (born 5 November 1969 in Dijon) is a French historian, professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, in Paris.
[1] He is teaching economic and social history of early medieval Central Asia, before and after the arrival of Islam.
He is a specialist of the Sogdian culture, its traders and nobility, and also of the nomadic invasions of the 4th-5th centuries.
Some of his theories are: He contributed to the expedition that led to the decipherement of the inscription of Hüis Tolgoi.
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