Name Albert Schinz | ||
Died December 19, 1943, Iowa City, Iowa, United States Books Anti-Pragmatism: An Examination Into the Respective Rights - Scholar's Choice Edition Education University of Neuchatel, Clark University | ||
Albert Schinz (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.
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Education and career
Albert graduated from the University of Neuchâtel (1888–1892), and studied at Berlin, Tübingen (Ph.D., 1894), Sorbonne and College 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 (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.
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Articles and Journals
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.