Algernon Coleman

Algernon Coleman (born August 9, 1876 in News Ferry , Halifax County , Virginia , † August 8, 1939 in Chicago ) was an American Romance scholar and foreign language teacher.

life and work

Coleman received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1913 with the work Flaubert's literary development in the light of his Mémoires d'un fou, Novembre and Éducation sentimentale, version de 1845 (Baltimore 1915, New York 1965, 1976). He taught French at the University of Chicago from 1913 and was editor of the series Heath graded French readings (Boston / New York 1934 ff).

Other works

• (with Percival Bradshaw Fay ) Sources and structure of Flaubert's Salammbô . Baltimore 1914.
• (with Howard R. Huse and Ernest Hatch Wilkins ) First lessons in spoken French . Chicago 1917.
• (with A. Marin La Meslée) Le soldat américain en France . Chicago 1917.
• Intermediate French . New York 1924.
• An analytical bibliography of modern language teaching
  • 1. 1927–1932, Chicago 1933.
  • 2. 1932–1937, Chicago 1938.
  • (with others) 3. 1937–1942, New York 1949.
• The teaching of modern foreign languages ​​in the United States . New York 1929.
• (with others) A basic French vocabulary . Washington DC 1934, in: Modern Language Journal . 18, 1934, pp. 238-274.
• Experiments and studies in modern language teaching . Chicago 1934.
• A Minimum French Idiom List . In: Modern Language Journal . 21, 1937, pp. 569-576.

literature

• Robert Herndon Fife, [Obituary] in: Modern Language Journal 24, Nov. 2, 1939

Web links

• Literature by and about Algernon Coleman in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)