Charles Philippe Théodore Andler (11 March 1866,

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– 1 April 1933,

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family in Strasbourg.Antoinette Blum, 'Charles Andler (1866-1933)', in ''L'affaire Dreyfus: dictionnaire'', 2006, p/117-120 In 1887 and 1888, Andler failed to achieve his ''agrégation'' in philosophy, judged by Jules Lachelier, inspector-general in charge of philosophy, as showing "excessive bias" towards German philosophy. He therefore changed to take the German literature ''agrégation'' in 1889, passing out top of his class.Robert Alun Jones, ''The development of Durkheim's social realism'', Cambridge University Press, 1999 Andler became professor of German at the

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in 1901 and at the

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in 1926. Amongst his works were writings on

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, a commentary on ''

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'', and a life of his friend

Lucien Herr Lucien Herr (17 January 1864 – 18 May 1926) was a French intellectual, librarian at the ''École Normale Supérieure'' in Paris, and mentor to a number of well-known socialist politicians and writers, including Jean Jaurès and Charles Péguy ...

Works

*''Les origines du socialisme d'état en Allemagne'', 1897 – The origins of state socialism in Germany. *''Collection de Documents sur le Pangermanisme'', 4 vols, 1915–1917 – Collection of documents on

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. *''Nietzsche, sa vie et sa pensée'', 6 vols, 1920 – Nietzsche, his life and thinking. *''Vie de Lucien Herr (1864-1926)'', 1932 – The life of Lucien Herr.

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