Adolphe Cohn

Adolphe Cohn (* May 29, 1851 in Paris, † February 13, 1930 in Paris) was an American linguist and literary scholar of French origin.

Life and work

Cohn studied at the École Nationale des Chartes and graduated in 1874 from. Then he went to New York City and was from 1876 to 1884 America correspondent edited by Léon Gambetta newspaper La République française, then until 1895 the newspaper Le Temps (France). In addition, he began in 1882 a career as a university teacher of French, first as a tutor at Columbia University, in 1884 as Instructor ( 1885-1891 Assistant Professor ) at Harvard University, and finally from 1891 to 1917 as a professor of Romance Philology and colleague of Henry Alfred Todd at Columbia University.

Cohn in 1901 with Henry Alfred Todd "Columbia University Studies in Romance Philology and Literature " out.

Cohn was an officer of the Legion of Honour.

Works

• (Ed. with Benjamin Duryea Woodward ) Voltaire 's prose, Boston 1898
• (Ed. with Robert Louis Sanderson ) Lesage Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, Boston 1899
• (Ed.) Montaigne, The Essays, New York / London 1907
• (Translators and eds with other ) Complete works of Guy de Maupassant, 9 vols, Boston / New York 1910
• French Literature, New York 1911
• ( Translator ), James M. Beck, La guerre et l' Humanité, New York / Paris / Lausanne 1917