Albert-Marie Schmidt

Albert -Marie Schmidt ( born October 10, 1901 in Paris, † February 8, 1966 in Paris) was a French linguist and literary theorist.

Life and work

Schmidt was with his friend Jean Tardieu students of the Lycée Condorcet in Paris. In the twenties, were among his acquaintances André Gide, Roger Martin du Gard and François Mauriac. From 1928 to 1934 he was a lecturer at Leo Spitzer at the University of Marburg. In 1930 he married the governess of Spitzer's son, Wolfgang, Colette Vallat, a descendant of the family of Margaret Mary Alacoque. From 1935 to 1941 he was a high school teacher at the Ecole Alsacienne in Paris. Schmidt completed his habilitation in 1939 in Paris with the two theses La Poésie scientifique en France au Seizième siècle. Peletier, Ronsard, Sceve, Baif, Belleau, Du Bartas, Les Cosmologues, Les Hermétistes. De l' influence des sciences et des méthodes de pensée sur la création poétique: 1555-1610 (Paris 1938, Lausanne 1970) and ( Eds.) Pierre de Ronsard, the anthem of the Daimons (Paris 1938). From 1941 to 1944 he was a professor at the University of Caen, from 1945 until his accidental death with great success teaching professor of French language and literature of the Renaissance at the University of Lille, where a library bears his name.

According to Hausmann 2008, p 611 Schmidt " was in, épuration ', the French equivalent of the de-Nazification ', because kollaborationistischer inclinations released (24 November 1944) and then downgrade to maître de conférences of its common Caen University to the University of Lille demoted. "

Schmidt was a member of the Reformed Church of France and was a staff member of the magazine La Réforme. He was co-founder of Oulipo.

Albert -Marie Schmidt was the father of Marie-France Hispanistin Schmidt and writer Joel Schmidt ( * 1937 ).

Other works

Saint- Evremond ou l' humaniste impur, Paris 1932
(Ed.) Jean Calvin, Trois traités, Paris 1934
( Eds.) œuvre de Jean Calvin, 3 vols, Paris / Geneva 1934-1936
La Littérature symboliste, Paris 1942, 9th Edition 1969 ( Que sais - je? 82)
(Ed.) La Jeune poésie et ses harmoniques, Paris 1942
(Ed.) poètes you XVIe siècle, Paris 1953, 1985 ( La Pléiade )
(Ed.) Maupassant, Contes et nouvelles, Paris 1956, 1957, 1975
Jean Calvin et la tradition calvinienne, Paris 1957, 1984
La Mandragore, Flammarion 1958
(Ed.) Jehan Calvin. Lettres anglaises 1548-1561, Paris 1959
(Ed.) Maupassant, novel, Paris 1959
(Ed.) L' Amour noir, poèmes baroques, 1959 Monaco, 1982
(Ed. with Gustave Cohen ) poètes you XVIe siècle, Paris, 1961 ( La Pléiade )
Maupassant par lui - même, Paris 1962, 1976
Le Roman de Renart transcrit dans le respect de sa verdeur original pour la la tristesse et tristes récréation of the cafards, Paris 1963
The XIV et XVe siècles français. Les sources de l' humanisme, Paris 1964
Paracelse, ou la force qui va, Paris 1967

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