Voltaire Foundation

The Voltaire Foundation is a research department of the University of Oxford, founded by Theodore Besterman in the 1970s.

[1] Directed by Professor Nicholas Cronk, it forms part of Oxford's Humanities Division.

[2] In the 1950s, the bibliographer and translator Theodore Besterman started to collect, transcribe and publish all of Voltaire's writings.

[4] Following Besterman’s death on 10 November 1976, the Voltaire Foundation was vested permanently in the University of Oxford.

[7][6] In 2010, the foundation was awarded the Prix Hervé Deluen [fr] by the Académie Française for this fifty-year project.