Louis Léger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis Léger

French writer and academic

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1843

Place of Birth: Toulouse, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 30-Apr-1923

Profession: writer, professor, translator, folklorist, linguist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Louis Léger (1843–1923) was a French writer and pioneer in Slavic studies.
He was honorary member of Bulgarian Literary Society (now Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also member of Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in Paris.
Academic institutions in Saint-Petersburg, Belgrade and Bucharest had given him a different status of membership. Léger studied under Aleksander Chodzko 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.
Léger helped translate various Polish works. His "A History of Austro-Hungary", first edition published in 1879 and last in 1920, was considered as one of the best text-book on the subject in any Western language.