Fred_G._Hoffherr

Fred G. Hoffherr

Fred G. Hoffherr

French-American professor, author, and activist

Frédéric Georges Hoffherr (ca. 1888 — October 11, 1956[1][2]) was a French-American professor, author and anti-Vichy activist.

Hoffherr was a professor emeritus and led the French department at Barnard College.[2] He joined the Columbia[3] faculty in 1919, promoted to an "assistant professorship of French" in 1926,[4] the following year, he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.[5] He was chairman of the French department from 1927 to 1936.[1] Hoffherr retired in 1953,[6] but had been a special lecturer until 1955.[1]

WWII

During WWII Hoffherr worked for de Gaulle,[2] serving as head of press and information services for him and broadcast for the Voice of America.[1] He was of the founders of France Forever,[7][8][9][10] becoming its publicity director[8][11] and later its executive vice-president.[12]

He made use of the WRUL radio station[13] since the beginning of 1941. Of his radio addresses in 1942, were published in a book.[14]

Books

Hoffherr had directed the editorship of L'évolution de la littérature française; petit traité à l'usage des étudiants américains,[15] wrote a foreword for A Mystery Story of Napoleon's Court,[16] had authored: the Basic College French;[17] French Language Chrestomaties and reader;[18] and the Book of Friendship: Le Livre de L'amitié.[19]

References

  1. [1]
    "Daily News from New York, New York on October 12, 1956 · 699". Newspapers.com. 12 October 1956. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  2. [2]
    "F.G. HOFFHERR, 68, EX-BARNARD AIDE; French Professor Emeritus Who Led Department Dies --Worked for de Gaulle". The New York Times. 1956-10-12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
  3. [3]
    University, Columbia (1925). Columbia University Bulletin. Columbia University Press. p. 5.
  4. [4]
    Todd, Henry Alfred (1926). Romanic Review. Department of French and Romance Philology of Columbia University. p. 280.
  5. [5]
    "Fred G. Hoffherr". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  6. [6]
    Barnard Bulletin Newspaper Archives Jun 2 1953, Page 1
  7. [7]
    Congress, United States (1941). Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 344.
  8. [8]
    "FRANCE: Troubled Exiles". Time. 1941-03-10. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  9. [9]
    A Nation-Wide Organization, Maison Francaise. (PDF)
  10. [10]
    "Le comité de la France Libre des États-Unis - Fondation de la France Libre" (in French). 2009-11-10. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  11. [11]
    Ross, Harold Wallace; White, Katharine Sergeant Angell (1940-11-16). The New Yorker. F-R Publishing Corporation. p. 23.
  12. [12]
    June 18, 1942 issue of Le Canada, quoted in publisher of his radio addresses .
  13. [13]
    Hoffherr, Fred G., Columbia Profs Support de Gaulle and "France Quand Meme", March 7, 1941, Columbia Alumni News.
  14. [14]
    Hoffherr, Frédéric Georges (1942). Second World War radio addresses by Professor Fred G. Hoffherr (in French).
  15. [15]
    L'évolution de la littérature française; petit traité à l'usage des étudiants américains , par Léon Verriest New York and London, Harper & brothers, 1936. .
  16. [16]
    Brahm, Jeanne Ichard Alcanter de (1937). In Secret Service: A Mystery Story of Napoleon's Court Translated by Virginia Olcott; with a Foreword by Professor Frédéric Georges Hoffherr ... Illustrated by Robert Lawson. J.B. Lippincott Company.
  17. [17]
    Bement, Newton Silas (1938). Basic college French. Harper & brothers.
  18. [18]
    Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1947). Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1946. Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
  19. [19]
    York, Maison de France, inc , New (1947). Book of Friendship: Le Livre de L'amitié.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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