Charles Dédéyan

Charles Dédéyan
Born 4 April 1910
İzmir
Died 21 June 2003(2003-06-21) (aged 93)
Paris
Occupation Historian of French literature

Charles Dédéyan (4 April 1910 – 21 June 2003) was a French Romance philologist, literature comparatist and specialist of French literature of Armenian origin.

Biography

Charles Dédéyan defended his thesis at the Sorbonne (Montaigne dans le Romantisme anglo-saxon et ses prolongements victoriens, esquisse d'une histoire de sa fortune de 1760 à 1900[1] From 1942 he was a lecturer at the University of Rennes and from 1945 to 1949 professor at the University of Lyon. From 1949 he held the chair of Comparative Literatures at the Sorbonne.

Charles Dédéyan won several prizes awarded by the Académie Française, including the Prix Broquette-Gonin (1962), the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises (1967) and the Prix Gustave Le Métais-Larivière (1984). He was also an officier of the Légion d'honneur.

He is the father of historian Gérard Dédéyan.[2]

Works

Bibliography

References

  1. This thesis appeared under the title Montaigne chez ses amis anglo-saxons. Montaigne dans le romantisme anglais et ses prolongements victoriens (2 tomes, Paris 1946), as well as Essai sur le "Journal de voyage" de Montaigne (Paris 1946).
  2. "Gérard Dédéyan". ACAM. Retrieved 16 October 2016..

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