Michel Kaplan (born 15 April 1946) is a French medieval historian, docteur d'État, professor emeritus and former president of Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
[1] He is a Byzantinist specialising in history of mentalities, rural space and hagiography of the Eastern Roman Empire.
[2] In his early years, Kaplan followed the courses taught by Paul Lemerle.
[3] He began his career as an assistant professor and then lecturer at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I), where he defended his thèse d'état (doctoral dissertation) Les hommes et la terre à Byzance du VIe au XIe siècle : propriété et exploitation du sol in 1987.
On 13 November 2018, a lecture given by Kaplan took place at the Athens Concert Hall in Greece.