Biography

Born in Dijon on May 20 1895. Died June 4 1977.

Education and professional career

  • 1913-1915, 1919-1920 : Student at the École Normale Supérieure
  • 1915 : Licencié ès-lettres (Classical languages and literature)
  • 1915-1922 : Member of the École des Hautes Études Hispaniques (Madrid-Seville 1915-1916, Madrid 1920-1922)
  • January-June 1916 : Delegate to the Allied International Propaganda Committee in Spain
  • 1916-1919 : In the army, second lieutenant of artillery
  • 1920 : Agrégé d'Espagnol
  • 1922-1926 : Professor of French Language at the University of Lisbon
  • 1926-1929 : Professor of Spanish at the Lycée de Bordeaux
  • 1929-1937 : Lecturer in Southern languages and literature at the Faculty of Letters in Algiers
  • 1934-1939 : Member of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes (Vigilance Committee of Anti-Fascist Intellectuals)
  • 1936 : Front Populaire candidate in legislative elections in Algiers
  • 1937 : Doctor of Letters
  • 1937-1945 : Professor of Spanish language and literature at the Paris Faculty of Letters
  • july1-16 August 1941 : Interned at Royallieu camp (Compiègne)
  • 1945-1965 : Professor at the Collège de France (Languages and literatures of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America)
  • 1955-1965 : Administrator of the Collège de France

Awards and honors

  • Croix de guerre 1914-1918
  • 1953 : Member of the Institut, elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
  • 1964 : Commander of the Legion of Honor
  • 1958 : President of the Société des américanistes
  • 1959 : President of the International Association of Comparative Literatures
  • 1962 : President of the Société des hispanistes français
  • 1964 : President of the Asociación internacional de hispanistas
  • Abroad, Marcel Bataillon has been a member of several academies and learned societies, and the recipient of numerous awards, honorary doctorates and decorations

Selected bibliography