Stanley Corngold

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Stanley Corngold
Born
Stanley Alan Corngold

1934 (age 89–90)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
OccupationLiterary scholar
AwardsBerlin Prize (2010)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1977)
Academic background
Alma materColumbia University
Cornell University
Doctoral advisorPaul de Man
Robert M. Adams
O. J. Matthijs Jolles
Academic work
Sub-disciplineGerman philosophy
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Doctoral studentsAvital Ronell
Notable worksFranz Kafka: The Office Writings

Stanley Alan Corngold[1] (born 1934) is an American literary scholar. He is an emeritus professor of German and comparative literature at Princeton University.[2]

Biography[edit]

Corngold was born in Brooklyn in 1934.[1] In 1957, he received his B.A. from Columbia University, which was interrupted by two years of military service.[3] 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,[4] and O. Matthijs Jolles.[1]

In 1966, Corngold became assistant professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Princeton University, and was named full professor in 1981.[1] His research has focused on translating and interpreting the works of Franz Kafka,[2] and he has published widely on modern German writers and thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Dilthey, Robert Musil, among others.[2] His recent works have focused on the lives and works of philosopher Walter Kaufmann[5] and novelist Thomas Mann.[6][7][2]

Among his students at Princeton were Laurence Rickels[8] and Avital Ronell.[9]

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 .[10][11] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Stanley Alan Corngold | Dean of the Faculty". dof.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-03-19. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  2. ^ a b c d "Stanley Corngold". Comparative Literature. Archived from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  3. ^ "Bookshelf". Columbia College Today. 2022-06-17. Archived from the original on 2022-06-23. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  4. ^ "Robert Adams, 81, A Literary Scholar And Classics Editor". The New York Times. 1996-12-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  5. ^ Corngold, Stanley (2019). Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-16501-1.
  6. ^ Corngold, Stanley (2022). The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691201641.
  7. ^ Corngold, Stanley (2022). Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781501386527.
  8. ^ "Laurence Rickels". The European Graduate School. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  9. ^ "Avital Ronell". The European Graduate School. Archived from the original on 2021-10-25. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  10. ^ "Stanley Corngold". American Academy. Archived from the original on 2020-02-16. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  11. ^ "Stanley Corngold". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2022-06-23. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  12. ^ "Stanley A. Corngold". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on 2022-06-23. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
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