Jean Hytier

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Jean Hytier (born January 4, 1899 in Paris , † March 11, 1983 in New York ) was a French author, Romance studies and literary scholar who worked in the United States as a university professor.

life and work

Hytier completed his habilitation in Lyon in 1924 with the two theses Le Plaisir poétique. Etude de psychologie (Paris 1923) and Les techniques modern du vers français (Paris 1923). From 1922 to 1924 he edited the monthly Le Mouton blanc . He taught in Iran and Algeria. From 1945 to 1947 he was in the French Ministry of Education. From 1948 to 1967 he taught at Columbia University , later at the University of California, Davis and at the University of Massachusetts Boston . Marcel Gutwirth (* 1923) was one of his students.

Hytier was Chevalier of the Legion of Honor .

Jean Hytier was the father of the American historian Adrienne Doris Hytier († April 18, 2007).

Other works

  • Le violon chante et pleure, Paris 1916 (poems)
  • Les romans de l'individu. Constant, Sainte-Beuve, Stendhal, Mérimée, Fromentin, avec un florilège de ces auteurs, Paris 1928
  • (Ed.) Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal, 6 vols., Paris 1928–1929
  • La cinquième Saison, Marseille 1933 (poems)
  • André Gide, Alger 1938, Paris 1945
  • L'Iran de Gobineau, Algiers 1939
  • Les arts de littérature, Algiers 1941, Paris 1946
  • Eloge de Paul Valéry, Paris 1945
  • La poétique de Valéry, Paris 1953, 1970
  • (Ed.) Valéry, Œuvres, 2 vol., Paris 1957–1960 (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)
  • Questions de literature. Etudes valéryennes et autres, Genève 1967

literature

  • New York Times March 13, 1983

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean Hytier in the US Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed July 25, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Hytier, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1983
Place of death new York