Charles Garfield Singer Williams
Charles Garfield Singer Williams ( 1939 - September 15, 2005 in Mount Vernon (Ohio) ) was an American Romance philologist and literary scholar.
life and work
Williams studied French at Kenyon College in Gambier, Knox County, Ohio , and on a scholarship from the University of Oxford . In 1969 he received his doctorate from Yale University with the work Jean Baptiste Henri du Trousset de Valincour , 1653-1730 (published by T. Valincour. The limits of honnêteté , Washington DC 1991) and then taught until his death at Ohio State University in Columbus (Ohio) .
In 1992, the Ohio State University's Charles Singer Williams Prize, donated by his mother, was linked to his name.
Other works
- (Ed.) Literature and history in the age of ideas. Essays on the French Enlightenment presented to George R. Havens , Columbus 1975
- Madame de Sévigné , Boston 1981
- (Ed.) Actes de Columbus. Racine. Fontenelle: Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. Histoire et literature . Actes du colloque de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Ohio State University, Columbus (6-8 avril 1989), Paris / Seattle 1990
Web links
- Literature by and about Charles Garfield Singer Williams in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://bulletin.kenyon.edu/x427.xml (obituary note)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Williams, Charles Garfield Singer |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Williams, Charles GS; Williams, Charles Singer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance studies and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 2005 |
| Place of death | Mount Vernon, Ohio |