Ernest Leroux

Ernest Leroux (born February 13, 1845 in Saint-Quentin , † May 20, 1917 in Paris ) was a French bookseller and publisher .

In 1891, Leroux founded the Ernest Leroux bookstore on Rue Bonaparte in Paris, selling old books from the Far East and Japanese prints. He published works of orientalism and archeology and then expanded his catalog to include philosophy, the history of religion, ethnology and anthropology. In 1876 he took over the Revue critique d'histoire et de littérature , which had been founded ten years earlier by Paul Meyer and Gaston Paris . Around 1900 he became the most important publisher of scientific journals: his catalog contained more than twenty-five of them, including the Revue d'Ethnographie , the Journal Asiatique , the Revue d'Histoire des Religions , the Revue de Philologie et d'Ethnographie , the Revue d 'Anthropology and the Journal de la Société des américaniste . His authors included Abel Hovelacque , Georges Révoil , Louis Rousselet , Clémence Royer and Ernest Hamy . After his death, his fund became the property of the Presses universitaires de France in the 1920s .

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SURNAME	Leroux, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 13, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint-Quentin
DATE OF DEATH	May 20, 1917
Place of death	Paris