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Geneviève Hasenohr (born 3 July 1942) is a French philologist and prolific scholar of medieval and Renaissance French literature. She has authored or contributed to more than forty books, written at least fifty academic articles and reviews, and prepared numerous scholarly editions.
She contributed to two of the most widely used books in the field of medieval French literature. One is Introduction à l'ancien français, by Guy Raynaud de Lage, revised by Hasenohr. With Michel Zink, she revised volume 1 of the monumental Dictionnaire des lettres françaises, subtitled Le Moyen Age. Zink and Hasenohr also co-edited the international academic journal Romania.
Her earliest publications were under the name Geneviève Esnos, then from 1969 to 2002 much of her work appeared under the name Geneviève Hasenohr-Esnos.
Long a professor at the Sorbonne university in Paris and at the Section Romane of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, she remains affiliated with the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and the Centre de recherche sur la création littéraire en France à la Renaissance.
She has been honored as a Knight of the National Order of Merit (France), and as a Chevalier des Palmes académiques. Since the year 2000, she has been a correspondent of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Professor Hasenohr continues to publish careful studies of Latin and French manuscripts, with expertise in medieval philology, paleography, French literature, Christian spirituality, and women's writing.