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Also receiving awards were H. P. Hatch '93, professor emeritus, Episcopal Theological School, for work on New Testament manuscripts; Amado Alonso, professor of Romance Languages, for Spanish philological research; and Herbert Deickmann, associate, professor of Romance Languages, for studies on the development and structure of Diderot's thought...
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...
...kinds of people who visit the Modern Language Center--the student who is interested in informal activities relating to the study and appreciation of a certain language and culture; and the scholar who comes to hear another scholar give a learned dissertation on, say, some lost Diderot manuscripts that he has recently recovered. The Center is ready to accommodate both types...
Consequently, his course in Russian Revolutionary Thought is given in the afternoon. He says the course has been handicapped by the absence of English translations of important writings by nineteenth century revolutionists. "It's as if you tried to understand French Revolution knowing Diderot was in favor of science, Rousseau rather enthusiastic, Voltaire disliked Church--but all in Chinese, so can't bother with them...