Albert guerard biography

He taught for a year at Amherst College before earning his doctorate from Stanford in 1938.
Albert Léon Guérard (1880–1959) was a prominent scholar of comparative literature.
Nationality: American.

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Albert Léon Guérard

Albert Léon Guérard (1880–1959) was a prominent scholar of comparative literature. Guérard taught at Stanford University for many years.^[1]

Life

Guérard was born on 3 November 1880 in Paris. For two years, Guérard was assistant professor of History at the Paris école normale supérieure. Afterwards, he studying at both the University of London and the Sorbonne – in 1906, he was agrégated at the latter.

The same year, he emigrated to the United States, where he taught the French language at Williams College. In 1907, newly wed to Wilhelmina Macartney, he moved to California. Here, Guérard taught French at Stanford University from 1907 to 1913. Until 1924, he taught at the International Rice Research Institute; his tenure was interrupted by his involvement in the First World War.

A prolific author, he published works on French and European civilization, world literature,^[2] and international languages, also holding the position of protector of the Occidental language's Occidental-Academie in 1936.^[3]

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Albert Joseph Guerard; Stanford Professor, Author

Albert Joseph Guerard, 86, a Stanford University English professor who wrote nine novels, six books of criticism and a memoir. He wrote his first novel, “The Past Must Alter,” when he was 20, and his last, “Gabrielle,” as he approached his 80s. His memoir, “The Touch of Time: Myth, Memory and the Self,” was published when he was was 66. Critics over the years praised Guerard’s sound, literate prose but often noted that his characterization was weak. A Times review of his 1950 novel “Journey Into Night” said Guerard’s “technical ability is great when it comes to the novel of ideas.” He joined the Stanford faculty in 1961 and soon launched the university’s first freshman seminar program, which ran for 13 years. Among Guerard’s students was the best-selling novelist John Updike. Guerard’s interest in the literary schools of modernism and postmodernism motivated him to develop Stanford’s current interdisciplinary doctoral program in modern thought and literature. Born in Houston, Guerard earned his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at S

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Albert J. Guerard

American novelist

Albert Joseph Guerard (1914–2000) was an American critic, novelist, and professor. He was born in Houston, Texas, and educated at Stanford University, (B.A. 1934), (Ph.D. 1938) and Harvard University, (M.A. 1936).

Life

Guerard was born in Houston in 1914. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1934 from Stanford and a master's from Harvard in 1936. He taught for a year at Amherst College before earning his doctorate from Stanford in 1938. He taught at Harvard from 1938 to 1961, where his students included Alice Adams, John Hawkes, Alison Lurie, and Robert Crichton. He served in the Army from 1943 to 1945 as a Technical Sergeant in the psychological warfare branch.

He moved to Stanford in 1961 where he launched the university's first freshman seminar program, which ran for 13 years. As many as 400 students were involved in it annually. He also worked to get funding for the Voice Project, a program that brought professional writers to campus to teach freshmen. He succeeded Yvor Winters in the literature chair named after Guerard's f