Nicolas Vatin is a French epigrapher and historian, specializing in the study of the Ottoman Empire.
[1] His brother, François Vatin [Wikidata], is a professor of sociology at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défenser.
After studying at the École normale supérieure, Vatin obtained his agrégation de lettres classiques in 1978[citation needed].
Between 1981 and 1983, Vatin was a resident at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul[citation needed].
[4] In 2015, he published a Dictionnaire de l'empire Ottoman XVe-XVIes with François Georgeon and Gilles Veinstein.