Artine Artinian

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Artine Artinian (born December 8, 1907 in Pazardzhik , Bulgaria , † November 19, 2005 in Lantana , Florida ) was an American romance scholar and philanthropist .

Life

Artinian immigrated to the United States via Ellis Island as a 13-year-old teenager and settled in Attleboro , Massachusetts . He learned English and was the class representative in his high school class for three years. He studied French literature until 1931 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and later at Harvard University in Boston . He received his doctorate from Columbia University in New York . Artinian worked part-time at the famous Sing Sing Prison, playing the flute for the inmates.

For 32 years he was an Artinian Professor at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson , New York. He was dean of the humanities faculty. Artine Artinian became the leading expert on the French author and writer Guy de Maupassant .

After his retirement he devoted himself to various French biographies. He collected many manuscripts and documents from French authors, including unpublished works by Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust , which he sold to the University of Texas.

Artinian was appointed officer of the French Legion of Honor . He received honorary doctorates from Appalachian State University (APPstate) and Bowdoin College (1966). He ran a foundation that supported poor students.

Artine Artinian was married to Margaret Woodbridge (1911-2005) since 1936, who died on February 20, 2005. Margaret Woodbridge came from a respected American east coast family.

Fonts

  • Artine Artinian: Maupassant as seen by American and English writers of today , 1943.
  • Artine Artinian: Guy de Maupassant and Louis Le Poittevin , 1948.
  • Artine Artinian: New light on the Maupassant family , 1948.
  • Artine Artinian: First publication of Maupassant's Papa de Simon , 1948.
  • Artine Artinian: Guy de Maupassant and his brother Herve , 1948.
  • Artine Artinian: Maupassant's Paris addresses , Johns Hopkins Press 1949.
  • Artine Artinian: Maupassant and 'La terre de Virgile' , American Association of Teachers of French 1949.
  • Artine Artinian: Maupassant and Gisele d'Estoc: a warning , 1952.
  • Artine Artinian: Maupassant criticism in France, 1880–1940 , Russell & Russell 1969.
  • Robert Willard Artinian, Artine Artinian: Maupassant Criticism: A Centennial Bibliography, 1880–1979 , McFarland 1982, ISBN 0-89950-046-3 .

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SURNAME Artinian, Artine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American romance scholar and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Pazardzhik , Bulgaria
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2005
Place of death Lantana , Florida, USA