Albert-Marie Schmidt

Albert-Marie Schmidt (born October 10, 1901 in Paris  ; † February 8, 1966 there ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Schmidt was a student at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris with his friend Jean Tardieu . In the twenties his friends included André Gide , Roger Martin du Gard and François Mauriac . From 1928 to 1934 he was a lecturer for Leo Spitzer at the University of Marburg . In 1930 he married the educator of Spitzer's son Wolfgang, Colette Vallat, descendant of Margareta Maria Alacoque's family . From 1935 to 1941 he was a high school teacher at the Ecole Alsacienne in Paris. Schmidt completed his habilitation in Paris in 1939 with the two theses La Poésie scientifique en France au seizième siècle. Peletier, Ronsard, Scève, Baïf, Belleau, Du Bartas, Les Cosmologues, Les Hermétistes. De l'influence des sciences et des méthodes de pensée sur la création poétique: 1555-1610 (Paris 1938, Lausanne 1970) and (ed.) Pierre de Ronsard, Hymne des daimons (Paris 1938). From 1941 to 1944 he was a professor at the University of Caen , and from 1945 until his accidental death, he was a professor of French language and Renaissance literature at the University of Lille , where a library bears his name.

According to Hausmann 2008, p. 611, Schmidt “was dismissed from the 'épuration', the French equivalent of 'denazification', because of collaborationist inclinations (November 24, 1944) and then demoted from his home university in Caen to the University of Lille postponed. "

Schmidt belonged to the Reformed Church of France and worked for the magazine La Réforme . He was a co-founder of Oulipo .

Albert-Marie Schmidt was the father of the Hispanist Marie-France Schmidt and the writer Joël Schmidt (* 1937).

Other works

• Saint-Évremond ou l'humaniste impur, Paris 1932
• (Ed.) Jean Calvin, Trois traités, Paris 1934
• (Ed.) Œuvres de Jean Calvin, 3 vols., Paris / Geneva 1934-1936
• La Littérature symboliste, Paris 1942, 9th edition 1969 (Que sais-je? 82)
• (Ed.) La Jeune poésie et ses harmoniques, Paris 1942
• (Ed.) Poètes du XVIe siècle, Paris 1953, 1985 (La Pléiade)
• (Ed.) Maupassant, Contes et nouvelles, Paris 1956, 1957, 1975
• Jean Calvin et la tradition calvinienne, Paris 1957, 1984
• La Mandragore, Flammarion 1958
• (Ed.) Jehan Calvin. Lettres anglaises 1548-1561, Paris 1959
• (Ed.) Maupassant, Romans, Paris 1959
• (Ed.) L'Amour noir, poèmes baroques, Monaco 1959, 1982
• (Ed. With Gustave Cohen) Poètes du XVIe siècle, Paris 1961 (La Pléiade)
• Maupassant par lui-même, Paris 1962, 1976
• Le Roman de Renart transcrit dans le respect de sa verdeur originale pour la récréation des tristes et la tristesse des cafards, Paris 1963
• XIVe et XVe siècles français. Les sources de l'humanisme, Paris 1964
• Paracelse, ou la force qui va, Paris 1967

literature

• Bernard Gros in: Revue des sciences humaines de Lille, avril-septembre 1966
• Albert-Marie Schmidt, Études sur le XVIe siècle, Paris 1967 (with contributions by François Mauriac , Marc Boegner , Raymond Queneau and Robert Kanters [1910-1985])
• Pierre Bolle in: Les Protestants, ed. by André Encrevé, Paris 1993, pp. 449-450
• Joël Schmidt, La métamorphose du père, Monaco 1996 (via Albert-Marie Schmidt)
• Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”, 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 240, 310-311, 610-611

Web links

• http://www.joel-schmidt.com/chrono.htm
• Literature by and about Albert-Marie Schmidt in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)