Roland Mortier (21 December 1920 – 31 March 2015) was a prominent Belgian scholar, philosopher and academic,[1][2] known for his contributions to linguistics and literature.
[3] Mortier obtained his PhD in Philology, specialisting in 18th century literature and Franco-German reports,[4][5] from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1946.
On the advice of his teacher Gustave Charlier, Mortier was struck by the fact that one of the editors of the journal, Charles Vanderbourg, had been unjustly forgotten.
In addition to his teaching careers at Athénée Royal de Malines from 1944 and his assistantship at the University of Brussels, Mortier also participated in a research project headed by Charlier.
[18][19][20] He wrote extensively - the result of fifty years of teaching and research concluded in publication of Le Coeur et la raison (The Heart and Reason), in 1990, by the Voltaire Foundation[21] in Oxford.
[7] In 2006 a further book was published, presenting twenty-four texts written by Mortier on the subject of the Enlightenment, to mark his eightieth anniversary.