Adolphe Cohn
Adolphe Cohn (born May 29, 1851 in Paris ; † February 13, 1930 ibid) was an American Romance studies and literary scholar of French origin.
life and work
Cohn studied at the École nationale des chartes and graduated in 1874. Then he went to New York City and was America correspondent for the newspaper La République française published by Léon Gambetta from 1876 to 1884 , then until 1895 for the newspaper Le Temps (France) . In addition, he began a career as a university teacher for French in 1882, first as a tutor at Columbia University, in 1884 as an instructor (1885-1891 assistant professor) at Harvard University , and finally from 1891 to 1917 as professor of Romance philology and colleague of Henry Alfred Todd at Columbia University .
From 1901 onwards, Cohn and Henry Alfred Todd published Columbia University Studies in Romance Philology and Literature.
Cohn was an officer in the Legion of Honor.
Works
- (Ed. With Benjamin Duryea Woodward) Voltaire's prose, Boston 1898
- (Ed. With Robert Louis Sanderson) Lesage, Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, Boston 1899
- (Ed.) Montaigne, The essays, New York / London 1907
- (Translator and ed. With others) Complete works of Guy de Maupassant, 9 vols., Boston / New York 1910
- French Literature, New York 1911
- (Translator) James M. Beck , La guerre et l'humanité, New York / Paris / Lausanne 1917
literature
- [Obituary] in: Bulletin de l'École nationale des chartes 91, 1930, pp. 237–238
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolphe Cohn in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- http://www.columbia.edu/cu/french/department/history.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cohn, Adolphe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance studies and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1930 |
| Place of death | Paris |