Albert Schinz (1870 – December 19, 1943) was an American French and philosophical scholar,
editor
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, 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
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, of
pneumonia.
Education and career
Albert graduated from the
University of Neuchâtel (1888–1892),
[Scull, David. ''Bryn Mawr College Annual Report''. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1908.] and studied at Berlin, Tübingen (Ph.D., 1894),
Sorbonne and Collège de France (1894),
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),
University of Minnesota (1898–1899),
(1899- ), and at
Smith College
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in Northampton, Massachusetts
["Contributors to This Issue." ''Nation'' 107.2789 (1918): 729.] (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
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.
He was a guest editor for an issue of the ''
Modern Language Journal''.
Beliefs
Anti-pragmatism
Works
Books
* ''Anti-Pragmatism: An Examination into the Respective Rights of Intellectual Aristocracy and Social Democracy'' (1909)
* ''J. J. Rousseau: A Forerunner of Pragmatism'' (1909)
* ''Les accent dans l'ecriture française'' (1912)
* ''La question du "Contrat Social"'' (1913)
* ''French Literature of the Great War'' (1920)
*''Seventeenth century French readings'' (1915)
*''Eighteenth century French readings''
*''Nineteenth century French readings''
Articles and Journals
*"L'art dans les Contes devots de Gautier de Coinci"
Schinz was published in ''
The Nation'' as a contributor of an article in 1918, Issue 107
and was critically reviewed in an article for his book ''French Literature of the Great War''.
His book ''J. J. Rousseau: A Forerunner of Pragmatism'' was also reviewed in the ''
Modern Language Quarterly''.
["État Présent des Travaux sur J.-J Rousseau (Book)." ''Modern Language Quarterly'' 3.3 (1942): 463.]
See also
*
Pragmatism
*
J. J. Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolu ...
*the
Great War
References
External links
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1870 births
1943 deaths
American book editors
American political writers
American male non-fiction writers
Clark University alumni
University of Neuchâtel alumni