Stanley Corngold Explained

Occupation:Literary scholar
Alma Mater:Columbia University
Cornell University
Workplaces:Princeton University
Sub Discipline:German philosophy
Awards:Berlin Prize (2010)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1977)
Doctoral Advisor:Paul de Man
Robert M. Adams
O. J. Matthijs Jolles
Birth Place:Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Notable Works:
Birth Name:Stanley Alan Corngold
Doctoral Students:Avital Ronell

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

Corngold was born in Brooklyn in 1934. 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.

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

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stanley Alan Corngold Dean of the Faculty . 2022-06-23 . dof.princeton.edu . 2022-03-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220319054850/https://dof.princeton.edu/about/clerk-faculty/emeritus/stanley-alan-corngold . live .
  2. Web site: Stanley Corngold . 2022-06-23 . Comparative Literature . en . 2022-04-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220407202353/https://complit.princeton.edu/people/stanley-corngold . live .
  3. Web site: 2022-06-17 . Bookshelf . 2022-06-23 . Columbia College Today . en . 2022-06-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623191021/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/springsummer-2022/article/bookshelf . live .
  4. News: 1996-12-18 . Robert Adams, 81, A Literary Scholar And Classics Editor . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-06-23 . 0362-4331 . 2016-09-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160914204144/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/18/arts/robert-adams-81-a-literary-scholar-and-classics-editor.html . live .
  5. Book: Corngold, Stanley . Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic . Princeton University Press . Princeton, N. J. . 2019 . 978-0-691-16501-1 .
  6. Book: Corngold, Stanley . The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton . Princeton University Press . Princeton, N. J. . 2022 . 9780691201641 .
  7. Book: Corngold, Stanley . Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle . Princeton University Press . Princeton, N. J. . 2022 . 9781501386527 .
  8. Web site: Laurence Rickels . 2022-06-23 . The European Graduate School . en-US .
  9. Web site: Avital Ronell . 2022-06-23 . The European Graduate School . en-US . 2021-10-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211025190910/https://egs.edu/biography/avital-ronell-2/ . live .
  10. Web site: Stanley Corngold . 2022-06-23 . American Academy . en-US . 2020-02-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200216165921/https://www.americanacademy.de/person/stanley-corngold/ . live .
  11. Web site: Stanley Corngold . 2022-06-23 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . en-US . 2022-06-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623191021/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/stanley-corngold/ . live .
  12. Web site: Stanley A. Corngold . 2022-06-23 . American Academy of Arts & Sciences . en . 2022-06-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623191021/https://www.amacad.org/person/stanley-corngold . live .