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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...
...Herbert Dieckmann, chairman of the Romance Language Department at Washington University in St Louis, has been appointed associate professor of French Literature here, Provost Buck announced last night. The appointment is effective July...
...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...
Professor Herbert Dieckmann, head of Washington's Romance Languages department, calls it "a clear violation of academic freedom...
...baron had lent them all to Dieckmann, and he had brought them home with him to St. Louis. All in all, to the tiny band of Diderot scholars it was the greatest discovery ever. It would mean a complete new look at the man Dieckmann holds was certainly "on a level with Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu." For students of the 18th Century, Dieckmann's find was beaten only by one other: the discovery of the Boswell Malahide papers (TIME, Nov. 29), which had also turned up forgotten in an ancient castle...