Word: diderot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another change in the French Department next year is the appointment of Herbert Dieckmann as associate professor of French Literature. Dieckmann, whose specialty is 18th century French literature, attracted notice recently as the result of his discovery of several unknown Diderot manuscripts in a French Chateau. He will fill the vacancy left by Jean-Joseph Seznee, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, who resigned as chairman of the department to accept a professorship at Oxford University...
Dieckmann is the author of "Le Philosophe" (1948), a critical edition with commentary of Denis Diderot, the 18th century encyclopedist. He has been a fall professor at Washington since...