Charles Saroléa

Charles Louis-Camille Saroléa (24 October 1870 in Tongeren – 11 March 1953 in Edinburgh) was a Belgian philologist and author.

His proposers were George Chrystal, Alexander Crum Brown, Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie and James Gordon MacGregor.

He was an avid book collector, and his library grew to such proportions that he took an adjoining property on the terrace to accommodate it.

In 1915, he was sent by the Belgian government to the United States to support the veracity of atrocity stories in circulation about the German occupation of Belgium.

The mission was not a success, in that Saroléa publicly attacked the neutrality that the US was observing at the time with respect to World War I.