Name Louis Frederic Role Historian | Died 1996 | |
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Education Pantheon-Sorbonne University Books Dictionnaire de la civilisation indienne People also search for Michel Random, Guy Rachet, Andre Bareau, Paul H Crompton | ||
Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, also known as Louis Frédéric or Louis-Frédéric (1923–1996), was a French scholar, art historian, writer, translator and editor. He was a specialist in the cultures of Asia, especially India and Japan.
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Early life
Louis-Frédéric was born in Paris in 1923. He studied at the Sorbonne and the École Pratique des Hautes Études.
Career
Louis-Frédéric wrote many books on India, Japan and Southeast Asia. He was the editor of the 10-volume Encyclopaedia of Asian Civilizations which was published in eight editions in English between 1977 and 1987. Louis-Frédéric's Japan Encyclopedia is published by the Harvard University Press; and it has six editions in English and French between 1996 and 2005.
Selected works
In an overview of writings by and about Louis-Frédéric, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 170 works in 337 publications in 14 languages and 7,762 library holdings.
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