About Stanley Corngold
Born 1934. Stanley Corngold is an American germanist, editor, translator and teacher.
Biography Corngold was born in Brooklyn in 1934. He then studied Sanskrit at the School of Oriental and African Studies and German at Columbia's graduate school. Having taught at the University of Maryland, Corngold entered Cornell University for his Ph.D. program, receiving his doctorate on Rousseau and Kant under the guidance of Paul de Man, Robert M. Adams, and O. Matthijs Jolles. and novelist Thomas Mann. and Avital Ronell.
Corngold was a visiting fellow at King's College, Cambridge. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 and a Berlin Prize in 2010, when he completed a book about Kafka's professional experience as an insurance lawyer . He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.
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American literary scholar
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Stanley Corngold was born on 11 June 1934 in Brooklyn.
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Stanley Corngold is a germanist, editor, translator and teacher.
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Stanley Corngold is American.
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