Background
Gauss was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His father had fled Württemberg when Prussia began to dominate it in the 1860s.
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Education
The son graduated from the University of Michigan at 20, worked as a newspaper correspondent in Paris, covering the Dreyfus case during which time he met Oscar Wilde who dedicated one of his poems to Gauss.
Career
Later Gauss taught at Michigan and Lehigh University in the United States, and in 1905 became a first preceptor at Princeton University, where he remained until his retirement in 1946. At Princeton, Gauss became a full professor two years after his arrival. He was chairman of the department of modern languages.
And he served as dean
After retiring from Princeton, he was president of Phi Beta Kappa. Gauss influenced and corresponded frequently with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson.
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