Albert Schinz

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Albert Schinz, Ph.D. (1870–December 19, 1943 in Iowa City) was an American French and philosophical scholar, born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He graduated from the University of Neuchâtel, and studied at Berlin, Tübingen (Ph.D., 1894), Paris, and in the United States at Clark University. He taught at the University of Minnesota for one year, then became professor of French literature at Bryn Mawr College (1899- ), and at Smith College (1913- ). He contributed reviews, edited the works of French authors, and published:

• Anti-Pragmatism: An Examination into the Respective Rights of Intellectual Aristocracy and Social Democracy (1909)
• J. J. Rousseau: A Forerunner of Pragmatism (1909)
• Accent dans l'ecriture française (1912)
• La question du "Contrat Social" (1913)