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.
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),
Bryn Mawr College (1899- ), and at
Smith College 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.
He was a guest editor for an issue of the
Modern Language Journal.
Beliefs
Anti-pragmatism
Works
Books
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An Examination into the Respective Rights of Intellectual Aristocracy and Social Democracy (1909), Boston: Small, Maynard and Company
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A Forerunner of Pragmatism (1909), Chicago, Open Court Pub. Co.; London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
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Les accent dans l'ecriture française (1912), Paris : H. Champion
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La question du "Contrat Social" (1913), Paris: A. Colin
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French Literature of the Great War (1920)
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Seventeenth Century French Readings (1915), New York: H. Holt, with Helen Maxwell King
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Eighteenth Century French Readings (1923)
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Nineteenth Century French Readings (1939)
Articles and journals
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"L'art dans les Contes devots de Gautier de Coinci"
[Daniel E. O'Sullivan. The Modern Language Review. 103.4 (Oct. 2008): p1121.]
Schinz was published in The Nation as a contributor of an article in 1918, Issue 107 ["Books in Brief." Nation 110.2869 (1920): 860a-861a.]
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.]
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