Albert Bernhardt Faust (April 20, 1870 in

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February 8, 1951) was an American scholar of German studies.

Biography

After attending the German Zions School in Baltimore, he entered

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, where he graduated in 1889 and took the degree of

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in 1892. He studied and traveled abroad at German universities from 1892 to 1894. He was instructor in German at Johns Hopkins, 1894–96, associate professor of German at

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, Connecticut, 1896-1903. From 1903 to 1904 he was assistant professor of German at the

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and in 1904-10 at

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, becoming full professor in the latter year. He retired from Cornell in 1938. Under his guidance, the German department at Cornell became one of the major centers for German-American studies in the United States. He was a member of the

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, the German Goethe Society, the Steuben Society and the

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Works

* ''

Charles Sealsfield Charles Sealsfield was the pseudonym of Austrian-American journalist Carl (or Karl) Anton Postl (3 March 1793 – 26 May 1864), an advocate for a German democracy. He lived in the United States from 1822 to 1826, and then again in 1828/1829. Dur ...

(Carl Postl), Der Dichter beider Hemisphären'' (“Charles Sealsfield, the poet of both hemispheres,” 1897) An expanded version of his Cornell dissertation. * ''The Problematic Hero in German Fiction'' (1901) * ''Development of

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treat ...

's Ethical and Religious Views'' (1902) * ''Defense and Interpretation of Book IX of Wolfram's Parzival'' (1903) * '' Friedrich Spielhagen'' (1905) * ''

The German Element in the United States ''The German Element in the United States, With Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social and Educational Influence'', by Albert Bernhardt Faust is a two-volume work published in 1909. It discusses the experience, influence and accomplish ...

'' (1909; Ger. trans. 1911) This was his major achievement, for which he was awarded the Conrad Seipp Memorial Prize by the

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and the Loubat prize by the

Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (german: Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften) was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Prussian Academy of Arts, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin ...

. * ''Guide to the Materials for American History in Swiss and Austrian Archives'' (1915) * ''A List of Swiss Emigrants to the American Colonies'' (1920, 1925) * ''The Bank War'' play(1944) He edited: * ''

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's Tales'' (1895) * ''

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's Prose'' (1909) *

Christoph Martin Wieland Christoph Martin Wieland (; 5 September 1733 – 20 January 1813) was a German poet and writer. He is best-remembered for having written the first ''Bildungsroman'' (''Geschichte des Agathon''), as well as the epic ''Oberon'', which formed the ba ...

, ''Oberon'' as translated by

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(1940)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Faust, Albert Bernhardt 1870 births 1951 deaths Cornell University faculty Cornell University Department of German faculty Johns Hopkins University alumni People from Baltimore Germanists Professors of German in the United States Johns Hopkins University faculty Wesleyan University faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty