John Lough

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John Lough (born February 19, 1913 in Newcastle upon Tyne , † June 21, 2000 in Durham ) was a British Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

John Lough was the grandson of the sculptor John Graham Lough (1798-1876). He went to school in Newcastle upon Tyne and in 1931 moved to Cambridge University . After a stay in Paris, he received his doctorate in 1937 with the work Some Aspects of the Life and Thought of Baron d'Holbach . Lough taught first as an Assistant Lecturer, from 1945 as a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen . In 1946 he became a lecturer in Cambridge. From 1952 to 1978 he was full professor of French at the University of Durham (from 1965 to 1967 also dean).

Lough was an Honorary Doctor of Clermont-Ferrand University (1967), a member of the British Academy (1975) and D.Litt. from Newcastle University (1992). He was an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite (1973).

John Lough was married to Muriel Lough, b. Barker (1913-1998).

Works

  • (Ed.) Locke's Travels in France, 1675-1679. As related in his journals, correspondence and other papers, Cambridge 1953, 2008, New York 1984
  • (Ed.) Diderot. Selected philosophical writings, Cambridge 1953, 1987
  • (Ed. With Muriel Lough) Twentieth Century French Translation Passages (prose and verse), London 1953, 1973
  • An Introduction to Seventeenth Century France, London 1954
  • The Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. Selected articles, Cambridge 1954
  • Paris Theater Audiences in the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries, London 1957, 1965, 1972
  • An Introduction to Eighteenth Century France, London 1960
  • (Ed. With Frederick Charles Roe) French prose composition. Two hundred English passages selected, London 1963
  • Essays on the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert, London 1968
  • The 'Encyclopédie' in eighteenth-century England, and other studies, Newcastle upon Tyne 1970
  • The Encyclopédie, London 1971, Geneva 1989
  • (Ed. With Richard Narum Schwab and Walter Edwin Rex) Inventory of Diderot's Encyclopédie, 7 vols., Geneva 1971-1972-1984
  • The contributors to the Encyclopédie, London 1973
  • (Ed. With Jacques Proust ) Diderot, L'Encyclopédie, 4 vols., Paris 1976
  • Writer and public in France from the Middle Ages to the present day, Oxford 1978 (French: L'Écrivain et son public, Paris 1987)
  • (with Muriel Lough) An Introduction to 19th-century France, London 1978
  • Seventeenth-century French drama. The background, Oxford 1979
  • The Philosophes and post-revolutionary France, Oxford 1982
  • France observed in the seventeenth century by British travelers, Stocksfield 1985
  • (with Elizabeth Merson, née Lough) John Graham Lough, 1798-1876. A Northumbrian sculptor, Woodbridge 1987
  • France on the eve of revolution. British travelers' observations 1763-1788, London 1987

literature

  • Studies in the French eighteenth century, presented to John Lough by colleagues, pupils and friends, ed. by DJ Mossop, GE Rodmell, DB Wilson , Durham 1978
  • Ann Moss, [obituary] in: Proceedings of the British Academy 124, 2004, pp. 165–180 (with picture)

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personal data
SURNAME Lough, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle upon Tyne
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2000
Place of death Durham