Stanley Alan Corngold (born 1934) is an American literary scholar. He is an emeritus professor of German and comparative literature at

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Biography

Corngold was born in

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in 1934. In 1957, he received his B.A. from

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, which was interrupted by two years of military service. He then studied Sanskrit at the

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and German at Columbia's graduate school. Having taught at the

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, Corngold entered

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for his Ph.D. program, receiving his doctorate on Rousseau and Kant under the guidance of

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, Robert M. Adams, and O. Matthijs Jolles. In 1966, Corngold became assistant professor of Germanic languages and literatures at

, and was named full professor in 1981. His research has focused on translating and interpreting the works of

Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of Litera ...

, and he has published widely on modern German writers and thinkers, including

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, among others. His recent works have focused on the lives and works of philosopher Walter Kaufmann and novelist

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. Among his students at Princeton were

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and

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. Corngold was a visiting fellow at

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. He received a

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in 1977 and a

Berlin Prize The Berlin Prize is a residential fellowship at the Hans Arnhold Center, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin to scholars and artists. Each year, about 20 fellows are selected. The stated mission of the program is to improve the transatlan ...

in 2010, when he completed a book about Kafka's professional experience as an insurance lawyer . He was elected to the

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in 2011.

References

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