Charles Rinn Explained

Charles Wilhem Rinn (6 September 1849, in Marseille – 1929, in Paris)^[1] was a French hellenist and lexicographer, mostly known for his textbooks.

Biography

He was agrégé in grammar in 1894.^[2] After he completed his studies at the École normale supérieure (1870^[3] -1874) he received a two-year assignment as teacher at the lycée de Laval (1874-1875). He later taught at the Collège Rollin in 1875,^[4] then at the Lycée Fontanes in 1882, where he ended his career in 1912. He also was a teacher at the maisons d'éducation de la Légion d'Honneur from 1890. In 1893-1894, Roger Martin du Gard was his pupil. In 1895, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and an officer in 1913.

Publications

Essays and textbooks

• Discours prononcé par M. Rinn, à la distribution des prix du collège Rollin le 7 août 1877
• Morale et patrie : lectures à l’usage des écoles primaires (in collaboration with Alfred Mézières 1885, reprinted in 1894 and 1900)
• Nouvelle grammaire française de A. Chassang... revue, modifiée et simplifiée (in collaboration with Louis Humbert 1892, reprinted in 1901, 1903 and 1907)
• 384 dictées choisies... suivies de devoirs oraux et écrits (in collaboration with Louis Humbert), 1895
• Notice sur Deltour (Félix), 1822-1904 (in collaboration with Ernest Dupuy), 1904
• Un mystérieux enlèvement : the , 1910.

Commentated editions

Cicero

• [M. Tullii Ciceronis pro Archia poeta oratio'', 1881, (reprinted in 1894) * [''M. Tullii Ciceronis Cato major de Senectute liber ad T. Pomponium Atticum'', 1882 ==== Cornelius Nepos ==== * ''Cornelii Nepotis opera'' (in collaboration with L.-Wilhelm Rinn) ; 1878, reprinted in 1884 ==== Herodotus ==== * ''Les Histoires d’Hérodote : notice, analyse et extraits'' (in collaboration with [[Félix Deltour]]), 1894

Homer

• L’Iliade et l’Odyssée : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894

Jean Racine

• Les Plaideurs, 1882

L.-Wilhelm Rinn

• Cours gradué de thèmes latins..., 1878
• Littérature, composition et style : leçons professées dans les cours spéciaux de l’Hôtel de ville de Paris, 1880, (reprinted in 1886 and 1891)

Livy

• Tite-Live : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894

Virgil

• Virgile : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894

Xénophon

• Extraits de l’Anabase et de la Cyropédie, 1889, (reprinted in 1899)
• Xénophon : notice, analyse et extraits, 1894, (in collaboration with Félix Deltour)

Collective collections

• Choix de morceaux traduits des auteurs grecs (in collaboration with Félix Deltour, 1884, reprinted in 1885, 1889, 1892, 1895 and 1907)
• Choix de morceaux traduits des auteurs latins (in collaboration with Félix Deltour, 1885, reprinted in 1892 and 1895)
• La Tragédie grecque : analyses et extraits du théâtre d’Eschyle, de Sophocle et d’Euripide (in collaboration with Félix Deltour ; reprinted in 1896), 1887
• Analyses et extraits des auteurs grecs et des auteurs latins, 1893, (in collaboration with Félix Deltour)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Charles Rinn (1849-1929). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 12 August 2016.
2. Web site: Les agrégés de l'enseignement secondaire. Répertoire 1809-1950. André Chervel. Ressources numériques en histoire de l'éducation. 12 August 2016. .
3. He interrupted his studies for 6 months as a volunteer in the Armée de la Loire.
4. Il prend la suite de son père Louis Rinn brutalement décédé.