André Bonnard

André Bonnard (16 August 1888 – 18 October 1959) was a Swiss Hellenist, translator, university professor, and public intellectual.

After obtaining his Licence ès lettres, he taught at a school in Mulhouse from 1910 to 1915, then in Rolle and from 1915 to 1928 at the Collège and the Gymnase classique of Lausanne.

In 1928, without a doctorate, he was appointed professor of Greek language and literature at the Faculté des Lettres of the University of Lausanne, a position he held until 1957.

In 1952, he was arrested while going to the Berlin congress of the World Peace Council and charged with treason for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union.

[3] Being isolated from most of his friends and colleagues, Bonnard dedicated the last years of his life to private scholarship and his publications.