About Gerda Blumenthal
Lived 1923 – 2004 (aged 80–81). Gerda Blumenthal was an American romanist.
Gerda Renée Blumenthal (1923–2004) was a German-American literary scholar. She taught French and comparative literature at the Catholic University of America from 1968 to 1988.
Life Gerda Blumenthal was born on July 26, 1923, in Berlin. She died on April 18, 2004, in Washington, DC.
Works The poetic imagination of Georges Bernanos: an essay in interpretation, 1956 André Malraux: the conquest of dread, 1960 Thresholds: a study of Proust, 1984
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German-American literary scholar
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