Louis-Frédéric

Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum (1923 – 1996), also known as Louis Frédéric or Louis-Frédéric,  was a French scholar, art historian, writer, translator and editor. IDREF-Autorités Sudoc ,  Frédéric, Louis (1923-1996); retrieved 2012-10-19.  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. WorldCat Identities: Louis-Frédéric 1923- 

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.
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 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) 

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