Marcel Édouard Bataillon, (Dijon, 20 May 1895 – Paris, 4 June 1977) was a French Hispanicist who specialized in the philosophy and spirituality of sixteenth-century Spain.
[2] This was followed by a term at l’École des Hautes Études Hispaniques in Madrid where he was a delegate to the "International Committee of Allied Propaganda".
From 1934 to 1939, he was a member of the "Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes", which resulted in a brief stay at the Royallieu-Compiègne internment camp in 1941.
[3] He remained at the Sorbonne until 1945 when he transferred to the Collège de France, where he became the chair of the department for "Languages and Literatures of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin-America", a position he held for twenty years.
[5] In 1972, the Marcel Bataillon Professorship in Comparative Literature was established at the University of North Carolina.