Claude Vigée

French poet & academic (1921-2020)

Claude Vigée (born Claude Strauss; 3 January 1921 – 2 October 2020) was a French poet. He wrote in French and Alsatian.[1] He was born in Bischwiller, Bas-Rhin.

He taught French Language and Literature at Ohio State University, then at Wellesley College and then at Brandeis University. He lived in Israel between 1960 and 2001, where he taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem until his retirement in 1983.

Vigée died on Paris on 2 October 2020 at the age of 99.[2]

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  1. "Conversation with Claude Vigée, 1972". Archived from the original on 2011-01-17. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
  2. "Le poète alsacien Claude Vigée est décédé". France 3 Grand Est.