Robert Thomas Cargo
Robert Thomas Cargo (born November 20, 1933 in Hanceville , Cullman County , Alabama , † December 23, 2012 in Paoli (Pennsylvania) ) was an American Romance philologist and art collector.
life and work
Cargo studied in Birmingham, Alabama and in Tuscaloosa. From 1956 to 1958 he taught at Snead State Community College in Boaz , Alabama. He spent the years 1959 and 1960 in France as a Fulbright scholar . He received his doctorate in 1965 under Alfred Garvin Engstrom at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with the work Baudelaire criticism 1950-1965. A critical bibliography (Chapel Hill 1968) and taught French at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa from 1965 to 1990 .
From 1984 to 2004 Cargo ran the Robert Cargo Folk Art Gallery in Tuscaloosa (since then in Paoli (Pennsylvania)). He bequeathed his important collection of quilts (patchwork blankets) to the International Quilt Study Center in Lincoln, Nebraska and the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama .
Other works
- (Translator) Pierre Emmanuel , Baudelaire. The paradox of redemptive Satanism , Tuscaloosa 1970 (French original: Baudelaire devant Dieu , Paris 1967)
- A concordance to Baudelaire's "Petits poèmes en prose" with a complete text of the poems , Alabama 1971
- (Ed. With Emanuel J. Mickel, jr) Studies in honor of Alfred G. Engstrom , Chapel Hill 1972
- A concordance to Baudelaire's "Petits poèmes en prose" with a complete text of the poems , Westport 1975
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Thomas Cargo in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.lib.ua.edu/Alabama_Authors/?p=920 (short biography, English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cargo, Robert Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romanist and art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanceville , Cullman County , Alabama |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 2012 |
| Place of death | Paoli, Pennsylvania |