Hugh Fraser Stewart

Hugh Fraser Stewart (* 1863 ; † 1948 ) was a British Romanist and Blaise Pascal specialist.

life and work

Stewart studied from 1883 to 1886 at Trinity College (Cambridge) and graduated with a bachelor's degree. From 1886 to 1899 he worked in the school system in Marlborough (Wiltshire) and Salisbury . Then he went back to Cambridge, first as chaplain at Trinity College, from 1907 to 1918 as dean at St John's College (Cambridge) , then as a fellow at Trinity College, from 1922 to 1944 as a reader for French. From 1919 he was also a fellow of Eton .

Works

Pascal

• The Holiness of Pascal , Cambridge 1915
  • La sainteté de Pascal , Paris 1919 (preface by Émile Boutroux )
• (Ed.) Les Provinciales de Blaise Pascal , Manchester 1920
• The secret of Pascal , Cambridge 1941, Cambridge / New York 2011
• Pascal's apology for religion extracted from the Pensées , Cambridge 1942, 2013
• The Heart of Pascal , Cambridge 1945
• (Ed. And translator) Pascal's "Pensées" with an English translation , London 1950

Other works

• Boethius . An essay , London 1891, New York 1974
• An Intermediate Book of French Composition , London 1891
• (Ed.) The book of Judges , London 1899
• (Ed.) The book of Exodus , London 1902
• (Ed. With Arthur Augustus Tilley ) The Romantic Movement in French Literature , Cambridge 1910
  • The French Romanticists. An Anthology of Verse and Prose , Cambridge 1914, 1926
• (Ed. With Paul Desjardins ) French patriotism in the nineteenth century (1814-1833) traced in contemporary texts , Cambridge 1923
• (Ed. With Arthur Augustus Tilley) The Classical Movement in French Literature , Cambridge 1923, 1935

literature

• French Studies 2, 1948, pp. 289–290 (obituary, English)

Web links

• Literature by and about Hugh Fraser Stewart in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0012%2FMS%20Add.7671 (short biography, English)