Albert Schinz (March 9, 1870 – December 19, 1943) was an American French and philosophical scholar, editor, and professor of French literature. Although he was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Schinz died in the United States at an Iowa State University Hospital, in Iowa City, of pneumonia.[1]

Albert Schinz
Born1870 (1870)
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Died (aged 73)
Iowa City, Iowa, US
EducationUniversity of Neuchâtel
OccupationAcademic

Education and career

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Albert graduated from the University of Neuchâtel (1888–1892),[2] and studied at Berlin, Tübingen (Ph.D., 1894),[2] Sorbonne and Collège de France (1894),[2] and in the United States at Clark University. He taught at the University of Minnesota for one year, then became professor of French literature at Clark University (1897–1898),[2] University of Minnesota (1898–1899),[2] Bryn Mawr College (1899- ), and at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts [3] (1913–1928). He finally retired after teaching French at the University of Pennsylvania in 1941. He spent the rest of his time as a visiting professor at Indiana, Texas, and Iowa University.[1] He was a guest editor for an issue of the Modern Language Journal.[4]

Beliefs

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Anti-pragmatism

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Works

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Books

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Articles and journals

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  • "L'art dans les Contes devots de Gautier de Coinci" [5]

Schinz was published in The Nation as a contributor of an article in 1918, Issue 107 [3] and was critically reviewed in an article for his book French Literature of the Great War.[6]

His book J. J. Rousseau: A Forerunner of Pragmatism was also reviewed in the Modern Language Quarterly.[7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Albert Schinz, 73, a French Professor". The New York Times. December 20, 1943. p. 23.
  2. ^ a b c d e Scull, David. Bryn Mawr College Annual Report. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1908.
  3. ^ a b "Contributors to This Issue." Nation 107.2789 (1918): 729.
  4. ^ Schinz, Albert (January 1929). "A Reply to Maximilian Rudwin". The Modern Language Journal. 13 (4). Blackwell Publishing: 315–316. doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.1929.tb01251.x. JSTOR 315902.
  5. ^ Daniel E. O'Sullivan. The Modern Language Review. 103.4 (Oct. 2008): p1121.
  6. ^ "Books in Brief." Nation 110.2869 (1920): 860a-861a.
  7. ^ "État Présent des Travaux sur J.-J Rousseau (Book)." Modern Language Quarterly 3.3 (1942): 463.
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