Charles Dédéyan Explained

Birth Date:	4 April 1910
Death Place:	Paris
Occupation:	Historian of French literature

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

Biography

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.

Dédéyan won several prizes awarded by the Académie Française, including the Prix Broquette-Gonin (1962), the Prix du 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]

Bibliography

• De Shakespeare à Michel Butor. Mélanges offerts à Monsieur Charles Dédéyan, Paris 1985
• International perspectives in comparative literature. Essays in honor of Charles Dédéyan, sous la direction de Virginia M. Shaddy, Lewiston 1991
• Hommage à Charles Dédéyan, in: Revue de littérature comparée 336, 2010
• Qui est qui. XXe siècle, Levallois-Perret 2005 s.v.

External links

• Charles Dédéyan on Who's Who
• Fiche on Data.bnf.fr
• Le cosmopolitisme littéraire de Charles Dédéyan on Cairn info
• Charles Dédéyan on the site of the Académie Française

Notes and 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. Web site: Gérard Dédéyan. ACAM. 16 October 2016. .