Louis Léger
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Louis Léger (1843–1923) was a French writer and pioneer in Slavic studies.[1] He was honorary member of Bulgarian Literary Society (now Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also member of Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in Paris. Academic institutions in Saint-Petersburg, Belgrade and Bucharest had given him a different status of membership.
Léger studied under Aleksander Chodźko at the Collège de France, whose position he eventually succeeded in 1885 by taking up the Slav Literature and Language chair of Adam Mickiewicz, which he occupied until 1923. Léger claimed that those who had not lived during the Second French Empire could not possibly imagine the effect of Polish influence on French society. Léger helped translate various Polish works.
Works
- Cyrille et Méthode: étude historique sur la conversion des slaves au christianisme. Paris: A. Franck. 1868. Retrieved 14 June 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- La Crise autrichienne, Paris, 1868
- Histoire de Autriche-Hongrie, Paris, 1879
- Contes Populaires Slaves, 1882
- "Cours de Louis Léger, Langues et Litératures slaves (leçon d'ouverture) Collège de France". Revue bleue politique et littéraire. 22 (1): 495. 1885. Retrieved 14 June 2018 – via Gallica.
- La Bulgarie, Paris, 1885
- Nouvelles études slaves histoire et littérature, 1886
- Russes et Slaves, études politiques et littéraires, Hachette, 1890
- Le monde slave, études politiques et littéraires, Hachette, 1902
- Moscou, 1910
- Nicolas Gogol, 1913
Notes
- ^ Seton-Watson, R. W. (December 1923). "Louis Leger". The Slavonic Review. 2 (5): 423–425. JSTOR 4201753.
- Translators from Polish
- 1843 births
- 1923 deaths
- People from Toulouse
- Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- Honorary Members of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- French male writers
- Collège de France faculty
- Members of the Ligue de la patrie française
- French writer stubs