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.
What follows is a list of his articles and contributions to books, with links to those which are available open access online. I’ll add his book reviews at a later date. I’m sure I will have missed things, so additions and corrections welcome.
Articles and Chapters
Lucien Gerschel, “Saliens de Mars et Saliens de Quirinus”, Revue de l’histoire des religions 138 (2), 1950, 145-51. [JStor]
Lucien Gerschel, “Structures augurales et tripartition fonctionelle dans la pensée de l’ancienne Rome”, Journal de Psychologie normale et pathologique XLV, 1952, 43-77.
Lucien Gerschel, “Coriolan”, Éventail de l’histoire vivante: Hommage à Lucien Febvre, Paris: Armand Colin, two volumes, 1953, Vol II, 33-40.
Lucien Gerschel, “Sur un schème trifonctionnel dans une famille de légendes germaniques”, Revue de l’histoire des religions 150 (1), 1956, 55-92. [JStor]
Lucien Gerschel, “Georges Dumezil’s Comparative Studies in Tales and Traditions”, trans. Archer Taylor, Midwest Folklore 7 (3), 1957, 141-48. [JStor]
Lucien Gerschel, “Varron logicien”, Latomus 17 (1), 1958, 65-72. [JStor]
Lucien Gerschel, “Autour des comptes à credit ou «al longue crôte»”, Enquêtes du Musée de la Vie Wallonne 8 (93-96), 1959, 265-92.
Lucien Gerschel, “Un episode trifonctionnel dans la saga de Hrólfr Kraki”, Hommages à Georges Dumézil, Bruxelles: Latomus, 1960, 104-16.
Lucien Gerschel, “Comment comptaient les anciens Romains?” Hommages à Léon Herrmann, Bruxelles: Latomus, 1960, 386-97.
Lucien Gerschel, “L’Ogam et le nombre: Préhistoire des caractères ogamiques”, Études Celtiques 10 (1), 1962, 127-66. [Persée]
Lucien Gerschel, “La conquête du nombre: des modalités du compte aux structures de la pensée”, Annales: Histoire, Sciences sociales 17 (4), 1962, 691-714. [JStor]
Lucien Gerschel, “L’Ogam et le nom”, Études Celtiques 10 (2), 1963, 516-57. [Persée]
Lucien Gerschel, “Couleur et teinture chez divers peuples indo-européens”, Annales: Histoire, Sciences sociales 21 (3), 1966, 608-31. [JStor]
Georges Dumezil and Lucien Gerschel, “The Production of the Sampo”, trans. Mark and Diane Glazer, in Ilhan Başgöz and Marc Glaser eds. Studies in Turkish Folklore: In Honor of Pertev N. Boratav, Bloomington: Indiana University Turkish Studies, 1978, 89-94. [Dumézil’s contribution is a short preface and the editing of this text.]
Reviews, short notices and letters
to follow
