Gustave Rudler

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Gustave Rudler (born January 11, 1872 in Besançon , † October 17, 1957 in Paris ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar who worked in England as a university teacher .

life and work

Rudler studied in Paris at the École normal supérieure and became a high school teacher. He completed his habilitation under Gustave Lanson with the two theses La Jeunesse de Benjamin Constant 1767-1794 (Paris 1909) and Bibliographie critique des oeuvres de Benjamin Constant (Paris 1908) and was professor of French at Bedford College in London from 1913 . From 1920 to 1949 he occupied the newly created Marshal Foch Chair of French Literature at Oxford University . He was co-editor of the magazine Revue critique des livres nouveaux (1910-1913) and from 1919 to 1932 co-founder and first editor of the magazine French Quarterly .

Other works

  • L'Explication française. Principes et applications, Paris 1902, 9th edition 1952
  • (with N. Berthonneau) Le francais par l'observation sensible, Paris 1910
  • (Eds.) Benjamin Constant, Adolphe, Manchester 1919
  • Les Techniques de la critique et de l'histoire littéraires en littérature française moderne, Oxford 1923, Paris / Geneva 1979
  • (Ed.) Jules Michelet, Jeanne d'Arc, 2 vols., Paris 1925
  • Michelet, historien de Jeanne d'Arc, 2 vols., Paris 1925–1926
  • "Adolphe" de Benjamin Constant, Paris 1935
  • (Ed.) Mme de Staël, Lettres inédites à Juste Constant de Rebecque 1795–1812, Paris 1937
  • (Eds.) Racine, Mithridate, Oxford 1943
  • (Ed.) Molière, Le Misanthrope, Oxford 1947
  • (Ed. With Jacob Peter Mayer) Alexis de Tocqueville, Correspondance Anglaise, Paris 1954
  • (with Norman C. Anderson) Collins contemporary French dictionary: French-English, anglais-français; revised by Anthony C. Brench [and others], London 1969 (first London / Glasgow 1952)

literature

  • The French mind. Studies in honor of Gustave Rudler. Edited by Will Moore, Rhoda Sutherland , Enid Starkie. [Gustave Rudler, by A. Ewert], Oxford 1952
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography sv

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personal data
SURNAME Rudler, Gustave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Besançon
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1957
Place of death Paris