Léon Dorez

Léon Dorez (born July 17, 1864 in Villemaur-sur-Vanne , † January 25, 1922 in Paris ) was a French librarian, Romanist and Italianist.

life and work

Dorez attended schools in Troyes and Paris ( Lycée Louis-le-Grand ). He studied from 1888 to 1891 at the École nationale des chartes , was from 1891 to 1893 at the École française de Rome and made a career as a librarian at the Bibliothèque nationale from 1893 to 1921 .

Dorez edited (with Émile Chatelain) from 1894 to 1921 the Revue des bibliothèques and (with Pierre de Nolhac ) from 1898 to 1908 the series Bibliothèque littéraire de la Renaissance .

Works

• (Ed.) L'Ars minor de Donat . Paris 1890 (French)
• Antoine Éparque. Recherches sur le commerce des manuscrits grecs en Italie au XVIe siècle . In: Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire , 13, 1893
• (with Louis Thuasne ) Pic de La Mirandole en France (1485–1488) . Paris 1897, Geneva 1976
• (Translator) Chronique d'Antonio Morosini. Extraits relatifs à l'histoire de France . 4 volumes. Paris 1898-1902
• (Ed.) Catalog de la collection Dupuy . 3 volumes. Paris 1899–1928, Paris 2003
• (Ed. And translator) Itinéraire de Jérôme Maurand d'Antibes à Constantinople (1544) . Paris 1901
• Les manuscrits à peintures de la bibliothèque de lord Leicester à Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Choix de miniatures et de reliures . Paris 1908
• New research on Michel-Ange et son entourage . Paris 1918
• The Alexandre Bixio collection à la Bibliothèque nationale . Paris 1918
• La cour du pape Paul III . 2 volumes. Paris 1932 (preface by Pierre de Nolhac)

literature

• Henri Omont : Léon Dorez . In: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes , 83, 1922, tome 83, pp. 246–247; accessed April 16, 2014
• Emile Chatelain: Léon Dorez 1864–1922 . In: Revue des bibliothèques , 1923
• Carlo Frati , Leon Dorez. Necrologia e bibliografia degli scritti 1890-1921 . In: Bibliofilia , 23 and 24, 1922

Web links

• Literature by and about Léon Dorez in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)