I’ve written about Lucien Gerschel in two posts in my ‘Sunday Histories‘ series – Lucien Gerschel, Georges Dumézil, William Shakespeare and the history of Coriolanus and The Tragic Death of Lucien Gerschel and his Posthumous Text on the Finnish Sampo. He was a student of Georges Dumézil and Émile Benveniste, who died in mysterious circumstances quite young in 1970. Dumézil says that there was a plan to collect his essays in a volume, edited by Georges Charachidzé, but this never appeared.

On this page I’ve made a list of his articles and contributions to books, with links to those which are available open access online. I’m sure I will have missed things, so additions and corrections welcome.

There are some other research resources related to my Indo-European thought project here, on Émile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil and Ferdinand de Saussure, and a lot more – especially on Foucault, Bataille, Lefebvre, Ebola, Boko Haram, writing and publishing, and other thinkers and themes here.

This note is a supplement to recent pieces in the ‘Sunday histories‘ series, posted every Sunday throughout 2025, and now in a second year. The posts are short essays with indications of further reading and sources. A few, usually shorter, pieces in a similar style have been posted mid-week.

The full chronological list of ‘Sunday histories’ is here, with a thematic ordering here.