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'').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). From 1942 he was a lecturer at the

University of Rennes The University of Rennes is a public research university which will be officially reconstituted on 1 January 2023 and located in the city of Rennes, in Upper Brittany, France. The University of Rennes has been divided for almost 50 years, before ...

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 An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

, including the

Prix Broquette-Gonin The prix Broquette-Gonin was a former prize awarded by the Académie française. It rewarded four disciplines: history, literature, philosophy and poetry. A separate prize was awarded by subject. Prix Broquette-Gonin (history) The prix Broque ...

(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 The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

. He is the father of historian

Gérard Dédéyan Gérard Dédéyan (4 February 1942, Nantes.) is a French professor of medieval history at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, a member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. and associate member of the Collège de France. He studi ...

Works

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.

References

External links

Charles Dédéyan on Who's Who

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''Le cosmopolitisme littéraire de Charles Dédéyan''
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on the site of the Académie Française {{DEFAULTSORT:Dedeyan, Charles French people of Armenian descent Armenians from the Ottoman Empire Romance philologists Academic staff of the University of Paris Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur 1910 births People from İzmir 2003 deaths Smyrniote Armenians