Albert Léon Guérard

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Albert Léon Guérard (born November 3, 1880 in Paris , France , † November 13, 1959 in Stanford , California , United States ) was an American literary scholar and university professor.

Life

Guérard studied at both the University of London and the Sorbonne in Paris , where he became Agrégé in 1906 . In the previous two years, he was assistant professor and examiner in history at the École normal supérieure in Paris. In 1906 he went to the United States and taught the French language at Williams College . In 1907 he married Wilhelmina Macartney. The young couple went to California, where Albert taught French as an assistant and associate professor at Stanford University from 1907 to 1913. From 1913 to 1924 he was French professor at the Rice Institute , interrupted by his service in the secret service of the US Army , the US Army Intelligence and Liaison Service , during the First World War .

From 1924 until his retirement in 1946 he taught at Stanford both in the department for French literature and for English literature and published works on comparative literary studies. During the more than twenty years at Stanford, he was visiting professor in various locations in the USA, including the University of California , the University of Hawaii and the University of Wisconsin . He served again in World War II , this time with the United States Office of War Information (OWI). After his retirement he was invited to give guest lectures at Harvard University and Brandeis University and taught at the New School for Social Research . In 1958 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

The Guérard couple had a daughter and a son. He himself died in 1959 in his home on the Stanford University campus.

honors and awards

  • Chair at Stanford University: Albert Guérard Professor in Comparative Literature .
  • Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor .
  • Crown of Romania.

Publications

  • French Prophets of Yesterday. A Study of Religious Thought under the Second Empire , 1913.
  • France in the Classical Age. The Life and Death of an Ideal . Scribners, New York City 1928. Reprint: Allan, London 1957.
  • Art for Art's Sake . Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., Boston 1936.
  • Preface to World Literature . H. Holt and Co., New York City 1940.
  • Education of a Humanist . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1949.
  • Fossils and Presences . Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA 1957.
  • France in the Classical Age. The Life and Death of an Ideal , Scribners, New York City 1928, Allen, London 1957.
  • Napoleon I. Alfred A. Knopf, New York City 1956.
    • German by Erich Haenel: Napoleon, Truth and Myth . Sibyllen-Verlag, Dresden 1928.
  • Napoleon III . Harvard University Press, 1943, reissued 1966: ISBN 0-061311839 .
  • Beyond Hatred: The Democratic Ideal in France and America . Negro University Press, 1969, ISBN 0-8371-1918-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Albert L. Guérard. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Guérard, Albert Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1959
Place of death Stanford , California , United States