Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum (1923 – 1996),édé also known as Louis Frédéric or Louis-Frédéric, was a French scholar, art historian, writer, translator and editor. He was a specialist in the cultures of Asia, especially India and Japan.
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 was published in 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. This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it. L'Inde: ses temples, ses sculptures, 1959 Sud-Est asiatique: Temples et Sculptures, 1964 La danse sacrée de l'Inde, Japon: arts et civilisation, 1969 La vie quotidienne au Japon à l'époque des Samurai (1185-1603), 1969 Tôkyô, 1970 Le Shintô, esprit et religion du Japon, 1972 Encyclopaedia of Asian Civilizations (10 vol.), 1977-1984 La vie quotidienne au Japon au début de l'ère moderne (1868-1912),1984 Japon, l'empire éternel, 1985 Japon intime, 1986 Dictionnaire de la civilisation indienne, 1987 A dictionary of the martial art, 1991 L'Art de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud-Est, 1994 Les Dieux du bouddhisme, 1996 Le Japon, dictionnaire et civilisation, 1996 Histoire de l'Inde et des Indiens, 1996
References
Other websites
Frédéric, Louis (1923-1996) at Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)