Albert Schinz

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Albert Schinz (born March 9, 1870 in Neuchâtel , † December 19, 1943 in Iowa City ) was an American Romance scholar and literary scholar of Swiss origin.

Life

Schinz graduated from the University of Neuchâtel in 1892 with a degree in theology with the thesis La nature du péché. Etude psychologique sur le péché dans ses rapports avec le sentiment moral, la liberté morale et trois points essentiels de la dogmatique chrétienne . He studied further in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1894 from the University of Tübingen . Then he went to Paris. In 1896 he was a private lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel. In 1897 he went to the United States and was an instructor for French at Clark University (until 1898) and at the University of Minnesota (until 1899). He became an Associate Professor of French at Bryn Mawr College (until 1913), at Smith College (until 1928), and finally Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (until 1941).

Works

Monographs

  • Essai sur la notion du miracle considérée au point de vue de la théorie de la connaissance, Neuchâtel 1897
  • The Morality of the Child, Langensalza 1898
  • Le manuscrit de la première ébauche des <<Confessions>> de J.-J. Rousseau, Paris 1906
  • Anti-pragmatic. Examen des droits respectifs de l'aristocratie intellectuelle et de la démocratie sociale, Paris 1909 (English: Anti-Pragmatism. An Examination into the Respective Rights of Intellectual Aristocracy and Social Democracy, Boston 1909, London / Leipzig 1910)
  • Les universités des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, In: Mercure de France 93, 343, 1911, pp. 449-481
  • Les Accents dans l'écriture française. Etude critique de leurs diverse fonctions dans le passé et dans le présent, Paris 1912
  • La question du << Contrat social >>. Nouvelle contribution sur les rapports de J.-J. Rousseau avec les Encyclopédistes, Paris 1913
  • J.-J. Rousseau et le libraire-imprimeur Marc-Michel Rey. Les relations personnelles, in: Annales de JJ Rousseau 10, 1916
  • French literature of the Great War, New York 1920
  • Vie et œuvres de JJ Rousseau avec des notes explicatives, Boston / New York 1921
  • La collection Jean-Jacques Rousseau de la Bibliothèque J. Pierpont Morgan, Northampton (Mass.) 1925
  • La Pensée religieuse de Rousseau et ses récents interprètes, Paris 1927
  • La Pensée de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Essai d'interprétation nouvelle, 2 vols., Northampton (Mass.) / Paris 1929, 1959
  • Etat present des travaux sur J.-J. Rousseau, Paris 1941, New York 1971

Editor and translator

  • (Translator) Edmund T. Sanford, Cours de psychologie expérimentale. Sensations et perceptions, Paris 1900
  • Théophile Gautier, Jettatura, Boston 1900
  • Victor Cherbuliez, Le roi Apépi, New York 1902
  • Victor Hugo, Selected Poems, New York 1908
  • (with Helen Maxwell King) Seventeenth century French readings, New York 1915, 1931
  • Eighteenth century French readings, New York 1923, 1967
  • Ernest Pérochon , Nêne, Boston / New York 1926
  • Nineteenth century French readings, New York, 1934, 1967
  • (with Osmond T. Robert and Pierre François Giroud) Nouvelle anthologie française, New York 1936

literature

  • Albert Schinz, anti-pragmatism. Responses and reviews, ed. by Peter Manicas, Bristol 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Schinz, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance studies and literary scholar of Swiss origin
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1943
Place of death Iowa City