Louis Frederic

Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, known as Louis Frédéric (1923–1996), was a French scholar, art historian, writer, translator, and editor specializing in Asian cultures, particularly India and Japan. He was born in Paris and studied at the Sorbonne and the École Pratique des Hautes Études, later editing the 10-volume Encyclopaedia of Asian Civilizations and the acclaimed Japan Encyclopedia published by Harvard University Press.