Charles Dédéyan
| Charles Dédéyan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 April 1910 Smyrna |
| Died | 21 June 2003 (aged 93) Paris |
| Occupation | Historian of French literature |
Charles Dédéyan (4 April 1910 – 21 June 2003) was a French Romance philologist, literature comparatist and specialist of French literature of Armenian origin.
Charles 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 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.
Charles Dédéyan won several prizes awarded by the Académie Française, including the Prix Broquette-Gonin (1962), the Prix du Rayonnement 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.
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