Albert Bernhardt Faust (April 20, 1870 in

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February 8, 1951) was an American scholar of German studies.

Biography

After attending the German Zions School in Baltimore, he entered

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, where he graduated in 1889 and took the degree of Ph.D. in 1892. He studied and traveled abroad at German universities from 1892 to 1894. He was instructor in German at Johns Hopkins, 1894–96, associate professor of German at

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, Connecticut, 1896–1903. From 1903 to 1904 he was assistant professor of German at the

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and in 1904–10 at

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, becoming full professor in the latter year. He retired from Cornell in 1938. Under his guidance, the German department at Cornell became one of the major centers for German-American studies in the United States. He was a member of the Modern Language Association of America, the German Goethe Society, the Steuben Society and the

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Works

* '' Charles Sealsfield (Carl Postl), Der Dichter beider Hemisphären'' ("Charles Sealsfield, the poet of both hemispheres," 1897) An expanded version of his Cornell dissertation. * ''The Problematic Hero in German Fiction'' (1901) * ''Development of

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's Ethical and Religious Views'' (1902) * ''Defense and Interpretation of Book IX of Wolfram's Parzival'' (1903) * '' Friedrich Spielhagen'' (1905) * '' The German Element in the United States'' (1909; Ger. trans. 1911) This was his major achievement, for which he was awarded the Conrad Seipp Memorial Prize by the

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and the Loubat prize by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. * ''Guide to the Materials for American History in Swiss and Austrian Archives'' (1915) * ''A List of Swiss Emigrants to the American Colonies'' (1920, 1925) * ''The Bank War'' play(1944) He edited: * '' Zschokke's Tales'' (1895) * ''

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's Prose'' (1909) *

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, ''Oberon'' as translated by

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(1940)

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Faust, Albert Bernhardt 1870 births 1951 deaths Cornell University Department of German faculty Johns Hopkins University alumni Educators from Baltimore American Germanists Johns Hopkins University faculty Wesleyan University faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty