Albert Schinz

Albert Schinz (March 9, 1870 – December 19, 1943) was an American French and philosophical scholar, editor, and professor of French literature. Born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Schinz died in the United States at an Iowa State University Hospital, in Iowa City, of pneumonia.

Education and career Albert graduated from the University of Neuchâtel (1888–1892), and studied at Berlin, Tübingen (Ph.D., 1894), (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.

Beliefs

Anti-pragmatism

Works

Books Anti-Pragmatism: An Examination into the Respective Rights of Intellectual Aristocracy and Social Democracy (1909), Boston: Small, Maynard and Company J. J. Rousseau: A Forerunner of Pragmatism (1909), Chicago, Open Court Pub. Co.; London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Les accent dans l'ecriture française (1912), Paris : H. Champion La question du "Contrat Social" (1913), Paris: A. Colin French Literature of the Great War (1920) Seventeenth Century French Readings (1915), New York: H. Holt, with Helen Maxwell King Eighteenth Century French Readings (1923) Nineteenth Century French Readings (1939)

Articles and journals "L'art dans les Contes devots de Gautier de Coinci"

Schinz was published in The Nation as a contributor of an article in 1918, Issue 107

His book J. J. Rousseau: A Forerunner of Pragmatism was also reviewed in the Modern Language Quarterly.