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3 unusual facts about Louis Léger


Ernest Denis

Along with Louis Léger, he is considered to be one of the most highly regarded 20th-century historians of the Slav world in France.

Louis Léger

Léger studied under Aleksander Chodźko at the Collège de France, whose position he eventually succeeded in 1885 by taking up the Slav Literature and Language chair of Adam Mickiewicz, which he occupied until 1923.

Léger claimed that those who had not lived during the Second French Empire could not possibly imagine the effect of Polish influence on French society.


Filologicheskie Zapiski

The magazine published articles by famous European philologists Max Müller, Ernest Renan, Georg Curtius, August Schleicher, Carl Becker, Karl Heyse, Hippolyte Taine, Louis Léger as well as translations of ancient authors Euripides, Lucian, Horace, Cicero, Virgil.


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