Maurice Leenhardt

Maurice Leenhardt was born in Montauban on 9 March 1878. A Protestant missionary sent to New Caledonia in 1902, he founded the Do Neva mission the following year, in the Houaïlou valley, trained Kanak pastors there and translated the New Testament into Houaïlou. Back in France in 1926, he succeeded Marcel Mauss at the École pratique des hautes études and taught Oceanic languages at the Langues orientales from 1944. He then directed the Institut français d'Océanie in Nouméa and died in Paris on 26 January 1954.

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• NarrativeDocuments néo-calédoniensMaurice Leenhardt · 1932not translated into EnglishLiterature