Paul Périgord

Paul Hélie Périgord (born October 23, 1882 in Toulouse , † November 4, 1959 in Nyack , New York ) was an American Romanist of French origin.

life and work

Périgord studied in Toulouse, went to the United States in 1902 and taught ethics at the seminary of Saint Paul , Minnesota from 1907 to 1914 . In 1912 he received his master's degree from the University of Chicago with a thesis Catholic social action in France . In 1913 he earned a second master's degree from Columbia University and continued studying at Harvard University . When war broke out in 1914, he volunteered and was promoted to infantry captain. After being wounded in the Battle of Verdun , he became a military instructor.

From 1919 to 1924 he taught European history at the California Institute of Technology . In 1923 he received American citizenship. In 1924 he received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota with the work The International labor organization. A study of labor and capital in cooperation (New York 1926, Chinese Shanghai 1928, 1933) and was Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1924 to 1947 (from 1931 to 1932 also Dean), from 1947 to 1950 in the same capacity at the University of California, Santa Barbara . In 1950 he went to Haiti and published a newspaper there.

At the request of Woodrow Wilson , Périgord gave lectures in all the major cities of the United States in support of the League of Nations . He was a member of the Legion of Honor .

Works

• Great American Personalities , 3 vols., Los Angeles 1935-1937

literature

• Catherine McGilly-McCoy, A rhetorical analysis of the speeches of Paul Périgord during World War I, Diss. Florida State University Tallahassee 1977

Web links

• University of California obituary