Charles Wilhem Rinn (6 September 1849, Marseille – 1929, Paris, was a French hellenist and lexicographer, mostly known for his textbooks.
He was agrégé de grammaire in 1894. After he completed his studies at the École normale supérieure (1870,-1874) he received a two-year assignement as teacher at the lycée de Laval (1874-1875). He later taught at the Collège Rollin in 1875 then at the Lycée Fontanes in 1882, where he ended his career in 1912. He also was a teacher at the maisons d'éducation de la Légion d'Honneur from 1890. In 1893-94, Roger Martin du Gard was his pupil. In 1895 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and an officer in 1913.
Discours prononcé par M. Rinn, à la distribution des prix du collège Rollin le 7 août 1877 ;Morale et patrie : lectures à l’usage des écoles primaires (in collaboration with Alfred Mézières; 1885 ; reprinted in 1894 and 1900) ;Nouvelle grammaire française de A. Chassang... revue, modifiée et simplifiée (in collaboration with Louis Humbert ; 1892 ; reprinted in 1901, 1903 and 1907)384 dictées choisies... suivies de devoirs oraux et écrits (in collaboration with Louis Humbert); 1895 ;Notice sur Deltour (Félix), 1822-1904 (in collaboration with Ernest Dupuy), 1904 ;Un mystérieux enlèvement : the Clément de Ris affair, 1910.[M. Tullii Ciceronis pro Archia poeta oratio, 1881, (reprinted in 1894)[M. Tullii Ciceronis Cato major de Senectute liber ad T. Pomponium Atticum, 1882Cornelii Nepotis opera (in collaboration with L.-Wilhelm Rinn) ; 1878, reprinted in 1884Les Histoires d’Hérodote : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894L’Iliade et l’Odyssée : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894Les Plaideurs, 1882Cours gradué de thèmes latins..., 1878Littérature, composition et style : leçons professées dans les cours spéciaux de l’Hôtel de ville de Paris, 1880, (reprinted in 1886 and 1891)Tite-Live : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894Virgile : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894Extraits de l’Anabase et de la Cyropédie, 1889, (reprinted in 1899)Xénophon : notice, analyse et extraits, 1894, (in collaboration with Félix Deltour)Choix de morceaux traduits des auteurs grecs (in collaboration with Félix Deltour ; 1884 ; reprinted in 1885, 1889, 1892, 1895 and 1907)Choix de morceaux traduits des auteurs latins (in collaboration with Félix Deltour ; 1885 ; reprinted in 1892 and 1895)La Tragédie grecque : analyses et extraits du théâtre d’Eschyle, de Sophocle et d’Euripide (in collaboration with Félix Deltour ; reprinted in 1896), 1887Analyses et extraits des auteurs grecs et des auteurs latins, 1893, (in collaboration with Félix Deltour)