Charles Rinn

Charles Wilhem Rinn (6 September 1849, in Marseille – 1929, in Paris) was a French hellenist and lexicographer, mostly known for his textbooks.

Biography

He was agrégé in grammar in 1894. After he completed his studies at the École normale supérieure (1870-1874) he received a two-year assignment as teacher at the lycée de Laval (1874-1875). He later taught at the Collège Rollin in 1875, then at the Lycée Fontanes in 1882, where he ended his career in 1912. He also was a teacher at the maisons d'éducation de la Légion d'Honneur from 1890. In 1893-1894, Roger Martin du Gard was his pupil. In 1895, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and an officer in 1913.

Publications

Essays and textbooks

Commentated editions

Cicero

  • [M. Tullii Ciceronis pro Archia poeta oratio, 1881, (reprinted in 1894)
  • [M. Tullii Ciceronis Cato major de Senectute liber ad T. Pomponium Atticum, 1882

Cornelius Nepos

  • Cornelii Nepotis opera (in collaboration with L.-Wilhelm Rinn); 1878, reprinted in 1884

Herodotus

  • Les Histoires d’Hérodote : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894

Homer

  • L’Iliade et l’Odyssée : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894

Jean Racine

  • Les Plaideurs, 1882

L.-Wilhelm Rinn

  • Cours gradué de thèmes latins..., 1878
  • Littérature, composition et style : leçons professées dans les cours spéciaux de l’Hôtel de ville de Paris, 1880, (reprinted in 1886 and 1891)

Livy

  • Tite-Live : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894

Virgil

  • Virgile : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894

Xénophon

  • Extraits de l’Anabase et de la Cyropédie, 1889, (reprinted in 1899)
  • Xénophon : notice, analyse et extraits, 1894, (in collaboration with Félix Deltour)

Collective collections

  • Choix de morceaux traduits des auteurs grecs (in collaboration with Félix Deltour, 1884, reprinted in 1885, 1889, 1892, 1895 and 1907)
  • Choix de morceaux traduits des auteurs latins (in collaboration with Félix Deltour, 1885, reprinted in 1892 and 1895)
  • La Tragédie grecque : analyses et extraits du théâtre d’Eschyle, de Sophocle et d’Euripide (in collaboration with Félix Deltour; reprinted in 1896), 1887
  • Analyses et extraits des auteurs grecs et des auteurs latins, 1893, (in collaboration with Félix Deltour)

References

  1. ↑ "Charles Rinn (1849-1929)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  2. ↑ André Chervel. "Les agrégés de l'enseignement secondaire. Répertoire 1809-1950". Ressources numériques en histoire de l'éducation. Retrieved 12 August 2016..
  3. ↑ He interrupted his studies for 6 months as a volunteer in the Armée de la Loire.
  4. ↑ Il prend la suite de son père Louis Rinn brutalement décédé.