The French historian Fernand Braudel (1902—1985) is the second generation representative of the yearbook school. Proficient in German. Put forward the famous long-term theory.

Role experience:

1927 during the summer vacation, Braudel used a camera bought from an American to search for the required documents in Simancas. Every day, he quickly finished filming 30 meters long, with two or three thousand photos. Braudel spent five or six years studying these accumulated materials, and then decided to take the Mediterranean Sea in Philip II's time as the theme of his doctoral thesis.

1in the summer and autumn of 939, he began to write "The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II". Soon after, he went to the Rhine with the army to participate in the war, and was immediately captured and held in Germany until 1945.

First he spent two years in a prison camp in Mainz, and then he was transferred to a special officer concentration camp in Lubeck. I finished writing this famous historical work in the prison camp. The Mediterranean and Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II was officially published in 1949, which also marked that Braudel officially became the backbone of the "Yearbook School".

He died of fever in 1956, and Braudel succeeded him and led the yearbook magazine in the following 12.