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Albert was born on March 9, 1870 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the son of Charles Emile Schinz, a well-to-do merchant, and Ida (Diethelm) Schinz.
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Albert was born on March 9, 1870 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the son of Charles Emile Schinz, a well-to-do merchant, and Ida (Diethelm) Schinz.
Albert received a bachelor's degree in letters at the University of Neuchâtel in 1888, a licentiate in letters in 1889, and a licentiate in theology in 1892. He then studied for a year at the University of Berlin and in 1894 obtained the Ph. D. (doctor of philosophy) in philosophy at Tübingen. Later he studied at the University of Paris (1894 - 96).
For a year Schinz was an instructor of French at the University of Minnesota (1898 - 99), Schinz taught at Bryn Mawr College from 1899 to 1913 and at Smith College (1913 - 28).
In 1928 he accepted a professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught until his retirement in 1941. Schinz produced a formidable array of articles, books, reviews, anthologies of French literature, and editions of French texts. His scholarly concerns ranged from bibliographical work on medieval French literature to a study of accents in French writing, from Dadaism and a philosophical treatise, Anti-Pragmatism (1909), to an investigation which resulted in his book French Literature of the Great War (1920).
His overriding passion and interest centered on Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Schinz labored arduously and unremittingly to explain the life and writings of his fellow countryman to the world. Among his many published studies are La Question du "Contrat Social" (1913); a book for the particular use of students; La Pensie religieuse de Rousseau et ses recents interprites (1927); La Pensie de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1929) - his most important work, summing up many of his previous articles.
Schinz served as visiting professor in a number of American universities.
In 1943, while at the State University of Iowa, he died of lobar pneumonia at the University Hospital in Iowa City.
As a professor of French literature Albert Schinz achieved a distinguished reputation among American institutions of higher learning. Besides, he was recognized as an authority on Rousseau on both sides of the Atlantic. His famous published studies: La Question du "Contrat Social" (1913); La Pensie religieuse de Rousseau et ses recents interprites (1927); La Pensie de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1929).
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Schinz had a tendency to assume that Rousseau could do no wrong. He perceived of a Rousseau who oscillated in his writings between the opposite poles of Roman or Calvinistic austerity and discipline and Romantic freedom and unrestraint.
Schinz did battle with the Rousseauphobes of the world - with Pierre Lasserre and Ernest Seilliere in France, and with the New Humanists in America, led by Irving Babbitt of Harvard and Paul Elmer More of Princeton.
Schinz was an energetic though not a robust man. Small of stature, with a distinctive goatee, Schinz was kind and courteous by nature, free of professional jealousy, generous with his time and knowledge.
Quotes from others about the person
Daniel Mornet, while considering Schinz an excellent literary historian and an even better philosopher, reproached him for "a sort of imperious dogmatism which tended to make him present pure hypotheses as unshakable certainties".
Schinz had a wife, Angelica de Beyersdorff. They married before coming to the United States, she was hospitalized for long periods and died before him.