Marie-Louise Sjoestedt-Jonval (1900-1940) was a French linguist and literary scholar who specialized in Celtic studies

Celtic Studies

Celtic studies is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to a Celtic people. This ranges from linguistics, literature and art history archaeology and history, the focus lying on the study of the various Celtic languages, living and extinct...

, especially Irish mythology

Irish mythology

The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branch and the Historical Cycle. There are...

. Together with Joseph Loth

Joseph Loth

Joseph Loth was a French linguist and historian who specialised in the study of Celtic languages.Loth was born in Guémené-sur-Scorff, Brittany. After his studies at Sainte-Anne-d'Auray, he became a teacher at Pontivy, then Quimper and Saumur until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870...

, she was co-editor of Revue Celtique and director at the École pratique des hautes études

École pratique des hautes études

The École pratique des hautes études is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions....

 in Paris, France.

Her best known work is Dieux et héros des Celtes (1940), which appeared in a posthumous English translation by Myles Dillon

Myles Dillon

Myles Dillon was an Irish historian, philologist and celticist.Myles Dillon was born in Dublin; he was one of six children of John Dillon and his wife Elizabeth Mathew; James Matthew Dillon, the leader of Fine Gael, was his younger brother.Myles Dillon graduated from University College Dublin,...

 as Gods and Heroes of the Celts (1949). It deals with the gods and heroes of the continental Celts and Irish mythology.

Publications

• 1926. L'aspect verbal et les formations à affixe nasale en celtique. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion.
• 1931. Phonétique d'un parler irlandais de Kerry. Paris: Ernest Leroux.
• 1936. "Légendes épiques Irlandaises et monnaies gauloises: recherches sur la constitution de la legende de Cuchullainn
  Cú Chulainn
  Cú Chulainn or Cúchulainn , and sometimes known in English as Cuhullin , is an Irish mythological hero who appears in the stories of the Ulster Cycle, as well as in Scottish and Manx folklore...
  
  ." Études Celtiques 1. pp. 1-77. ISSN 03731928. RHS record
• 1938. Description d'un parler irlandais du Kerry. Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion. 222 p.
• 1938. "Études sur le temps et l'aspect en vieil irlandais." Études Celtiques
  Études Celtiques
  Études Celtiques is a French academic journal of Celtic Studies, based in Paris.It started life under the name Revue Celtique, which was founded in 1870 by Henri Gaidoz. Between 1870 and 1934, as many as 52 volumes were published under the editorial supervision of Celtic scholars such as Henri...
  
  3. pp. 105–130 and 219-273.
• 1940. Dieux et Héros des Celtes. Paris: Leroux. (Chapters: Mythes et religions : période mythique - divinités (celtes continentaux - déesses-mères d'Irlande - Dieux-chefs de l'Irlande) - Hommes et Dieux et Héros, Samain-Samonios : Fête du premier Novembre)
• 1949. Gods and Heroes of the Celts, London, Methuen. English translation by Myles Dillon.

Further reading

• Dumézil, Georges
  Georges Dumézil
  Georges Dumézil was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Proto-Indo-European religion and society...
  
  . Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (1900-1940) In memoriam. Paris, 1941 Image.
• Ó Lúing, Seán. "Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Celtic scholar, (1900-1940)." Journal of the Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society 20 (1987). pp. 79–93. ISSN 00852503. RHS record