Claude Lecouteux
Claude Lecouteux | |
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| Born | 8 February 1943 |
| Died | 13 November 2025 (aged 82) |
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| Doctoral advisor | Gaston Zink |
| Influences | Georges Dumézil |
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| Discipline | Germanic studies |
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| Main interests | Germanic mythology and folklore |
| Notable works | Encyclopedia of Norse and Germanic Folklore, Mythology, and Magic (2015) |
Claude Lecouteux (8 February 1943 – 13 November 2025) was a French philologist and medievalist who specialised in Germanic studies. He was Professor Emeritus and Chair of the Literature and Civilization of Medieval Germanic Peoples at Sorbonne University.
In 1986 Lecouteux published what is now regarded as a seminal history of ghosts from 500 to 1500, relying largely on literary sources.