Hugo Paul Thieme

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Hugo Paul Thieme

Hugo Paul Thieme (born February 2, 1870 in Fort Wayne , † June 2, 1940 in Ann Arbor ) was an American Romance philologist and bibliographer.

life and work

Thieme studied from 1890 at Johns Hopkins University and received his doctorate there (after a stay in Paris and Berlin 1894–1895) with the thesis The technique of the French Alexandrine. A study of the works of Leconte de Lisle, José Maria de Heredia, François Coppée, Sully Prudhomme, and Paul Verlaine (Baltimore 1897, Ann Arbor 1899). After a brief interlude at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana , he began a long college career in 1898 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . He was there from 1914 full professor and from 1926 until his death head of the Department of Romance Languages.

Thieme was a Knight of the Legion of Honor (1923). His large bibliography of French literature from 1800 onwards was awarded a prize by the Académie française (1935).

Other works

  • La littérature française du dix-neuvième siècle. Bibliography des principaux prosateurs, poètes, auteurs dramatiques et critiques , Paris 1897 (90 pages)
  • (Ed.) Hector Malot, Sans famille , New York 1902

  • Guide bibliographique de la littérature française de 1800 à 1906. Prosateurs, poètes, auteurs dramatiques et critiques , Paris 1907, Grenoble 2010 (510 pages)
  • Women of modern France , Philadelphia 1907, Project Gutenberg 2005 ( Woman in all ages and in all countries , vol. 7)
  • (with John Robert Effinger) A French grammar , New York 1908, 1912
  • (Eds.) Balzac, Le cousin Pons , Ann Arbor 1911
  • Essai sur l'histoire du vers français , Paris 1916, New York 1971 (translated from English by Abel Doysié; foreword by Gustave Lanson )
  • (Eds.) Louis Hémon, Maria Chapdelaine. Récit du Canada français , New York 1923
  • La civilization française jugée par un Américain , Paris 1924
  • Essais sur la civilization française , Paris 1933
  • Bibliographie de la littérature française de 1800 à 1930 , 3 vols., Paris 1933, 2 vols., Geneva 1971, 1983 (1. A – K, 2. L – Z, 3. La civilization [Ouvrages et articles à consulter sur l 'histoire de la langue, de la littérature et de la civilization française]; XXVII-1061, XXV-1041, 216 pages)

literature

  • Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits ..., American Publishers' Association, 1914
  • Silpelitt Dreher and Madeleine Rolli, Bibliographie de la littérature française 1930–1939. Complément à la "Bibliographie" de HP Thieme , Lille 1948, Geneva 1976
  • Bibliographie de la littérature française de 1800 à 1930. Complément 1940–1955 , Paris 1955

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personal data
SURNAME Thieme, Hugo Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance Studies and Bibliographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Wayne
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1940
Place of death Ann Arbor