Subdivision
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| | 1 | Name: | Mr. Robert Brentano | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | November 21, 2002 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Lionel Gossman | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | January 11, 2021 | | | | | | |
Lionel Gossman was M. Taylor Pine Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Emeritus at Princeton University. His interests focus on the relationship between history and literature in 17th through 19th century Europe -- especially on problems of "humanistic education as it is and as it should be." Since 1976 he has taught courses at Princeton on 17th and 18th century French literature and on European literature and politics of the 19th century. Born in Scotland, Dr. Gossman earned his M.A. at the University of Glasgow in 1951 as well as a diplome d'études supérieures at the University of Paris in 1952 and his D. Phil. at Oxford in 1957. After teaching at the University of Lille and at Glasgow, he came to the United States in 1958 and joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught until he came to Princeton as professor of Romance languages and literatures. He was appointed to the Pyne professorship in 1983, received the Behrman Award in 1990 and was named an Officier des Palmes Académiques in 1991. Ranging from Molière to the Enlightenment to Gibbon to Swiss culture, Dr. Gossman's publications include Men and Masks: A Study of Molière (1963), Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment (1968), The Empire Unpossess'd (1981), Between History and Literature (1990),Geneva-Zurich-Basel: History, Culture and National Identity (with N. Bouvier et al., 1994) and Basel in the Age of Burckhardt. (2000). He died on January 11, 2021. | |
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