Mazon, André, b 7 September 1881 in Paris, d 13 July 1967 in Paris. French Slavist; member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1927, the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1928, the Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres from 1941, and the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1956. He studied at the Sorbonne and Prague University, taught French at Kharkiv University (1905–8), and was a professor of Slavic philology at the University of Strasbourg (1919–23) and the Collège de France (1924–52). He was the head of the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Paris from 1937 and the vice-president of the International Committee of Slavists (1958–67). Among his many works are articles on Marko Vovchok in France, Nikolai Gogol, and Taras Shevchenko; a book about Slovo o polku Ihorevi (Le Slovo d’Igor [1940], where he doubted its authenticity); surveys of publications in Ukrainian studies (1921–4) in Revue des études slaves, which he cofounded and later edited; and the introduction to Antoine Martel’s book on the Polish language in Ukraine (1939). He cotranslated M. Uspensky’s Quelques données historiques sur ‘Le Slovo d’Igor’ et Tmutorokan (1965).

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