Beat Schmid

Beat Schmid (* 1940 in Zurich ) is a Swiss romance scholar and author of aphorisms and essays .

Career

Beat Schmid studied Romance studies and comparative literature at the University of Zurich . In 1968 he completed his studies with a dissertation on Félicité de Lamennais . From 1966 to 2000 Schmid taught French in Zurich as a high school teacher . He published two books with aphorisms, published essays and reviews on French literature and philosophy in various magazines and worked as a literary critic for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

Publications

• L'espérance et l'itinéraire de la certitude chez Lamennais. Essai sur les idées constitutives de l'instinct et du sacrifice , Peter Lang Verlag (= series: Europäische Hochschulschriften Volume 4), Bern 1970, ISBN 978-3-261-00199-3 (also dissertation)

Fiction books

• Explosive sentences . Aphorisms, with drawings by Denise Hotz, Pendo Verlag , Zurich 1975. ISBN 3-85842-016-6
• Off its hinges . Aphorisms, Edition Howeg, Zurich 2009. ISBN 978-3-85736-263-7

Aphorisms and essays

• Aphorisms by Beat Schmid in: Hans-Horst Skupy (Ed.): The great manual of quotations . Bassermann Verlag , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8094-3153-4 , pp. 44, 195, 308, 321, 742, 916, 984
• Floor plans . In: Merkur 1977 issue 352, p. 874.
• Chimneys . In: Merkur 1974, issue 309, p. 147.
• Therapy as a practice of friendship. On the correspondence between Julien Green and Jacques Maritain . In: Merkur 1980, issue 07, pp. 729–735 ( preview )
• Tensile tests. View of Albert Camus from his diaries (pdf; 2.5 MB). In: Orientation of February 28, 1990, pp. 45-48.
• An addict to ambiguity. Milan Kundera on the art of the novel (pdf; 2.5 MB). In: Orientation. Catholic papers for ideological information of September 30, 1994, pp. 193–196.
• A magazine researches itself. 50 years of “Esprit” (pdf; 2.2 MB). In: Orientation from April 15, 1983, pp. 86-88.
• To a study on Jean Grenier's main work (pdf; 2.4 MB). In: Orientation from May 15, 1997, pp. 102-104.

Web links

• Literature by and about Beat Schmid in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Merkur (journal) , 34/1980, page 747 (partly available from Google Books )
2. ↑ Universitas. Journal for Art, Science and Culture , Volume 32/1977, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, page 111 (partly available from Google Books )
3. ↑ Information on the biography from the publisher's information on the book Aus denangel .
4. ^ Friedemann Spicker : The German aphorism in the 20th century . Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-484-10859-2 , pp. 602 and 610