Alfred Morel-Fatio

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Alfred Paul Victor Morel-Fatio (1850–1924) was the leading French Hispanist of his time, born at Strasbourg and educated at Ecole des Chartes, Paris. From 1875 to 1880 he was attaché of the department of manuscripts of the Bibliothèque Nationale, during which period he prepared his excellent Catalogue des manuscrits espagnole et portugais de la Bibliothèque Nationale. For the next five years he was professor at the Ecole Supérieure des Lettres at Algiers. In 1885 he returned to France to accept the chair of languages and literature of southern Europe in the Collège de France. He became influential and known widely, and in 1894 he was Taylorian lecturer at Oxford University. He was elected corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of the Language, and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of Charles II, and in his own country became an officer of public instruction, a member of the Institute of France (1910), and a Knight of the Legion of Honor . After 1874 Morel-Fatio was a contributor to the Romania, and after 1899 one of the directors of the Bulletin Hispanïque. Amongst his many publicatons are:

a translation of the Grammaire des langues romanes by Diez (1874-76)
an edition of Calderón's Mágico prodigioso (1877)
L'Espagne au XVIe et au XVIIe siècle (1878)
Libro de los fechos et conquistas del principado de la Morea ... Chronique de Morée aux XVIIIe et XIVe siècles (1885)
Vie des Lazarillo de Tormes; Etudes des l'Espagne (three volumes, 1888-1904; second edition of volumes i and ii, 1895 and 1906)
"El Libro de Alijandre," in Gesellschaft für romanische Literatue, volume x (1906)
Recueil des instructions donnéesaux ambassadeurs de France en Espagne; Historiographie de Charles-Quint (1913)