Martel, René

Martel, René, b 23 August 1893 in Baume-les-Dames, Doubs, France, d 6 January 1976 in Paris. French historian and publicist. He taught history in lycées in Sens, Chartres, and Paris (Montaigne) and was a professor at Ljubljana University (1926–9). He cotranslated (with S. Borschak) Taras Shevchenko’s Ivan Hus into French (1930) and wrote Vie de Mazeppa (with Elie Borschak, 1931; Ukrainian translation 1933), La question d’Ukraine (1927), Les Blancs Russes (1929), La France et la Pologne: Réalités de l’Est Européen (1931, using Ukrainian documents), La Ruthénie Subcarpathique (1935), Le problème de l’Ukraine (1938), and ‘La politique allemande en Ukraine’ (in L’Allemagne contemporaine, 1939). He also contributed articles to Le Monde slave on Louis-Paul-Marie Léger (1929), Dmytro Bahalii (1932), Soviet nationality policy in Ukraine (1934), Ukrainian proverbs (1935), Transcarpathia in the Middle Ages (1936), Ukraine after the Battle of Poltava (1937), and Elie Borschak’s book on Napoleon Bonaparte and Ukraine (1938).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]