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Gerda Blumenthal
German-American literary scholar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gerda Renée Blumenthal (1923–2004) was a German-American literary scholar. She taught French and comparative literature at the Catholic University of America from 1968 to 1988.[1]
Life
Gerda Blumenthal was born on July 26, 1923, in Berlin.[1] She escaped Nazi Germany to America around 1941, and studied in New York.[2] She died on April 18, 2004, in Washington, DC.[1]
Works
- The poetic imagination of Georges Bernanos: an essay in interpretation, 1956
- André Malraux: the conquest of dread, 1960
- Thresholds: a study of Proust, 1984
References
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