Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature

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Marshal Foch
, in whose honour the professorial chair is named

The position of Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the

Fellowship of All Souls College
.

History

The position of Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature in the

Doctorate of Civil Law (DCL) in October 1920.[4]

News of the donation was announced in

Sir Herbert Warren, the president of Magdalen College, Oxford, stated that the Professor was to be paid £500 annually (equivalent to £23,451 in 2019[2]), "making it a first-rate chair."[8]

Zaharoff initially stipulated that Oxford's choice of Marshal Foch Professor should be approved by the

The Manchester Guardian wrote in 1919 that London University "sustains an immense loss" through Rudler's appointment and "can ill afford to lose him", since he had "raised the study of French literature to an entirely new plane".[10]

The post is associated with a non-stipendiary

Fellowship of All Souls College.[11] Changes to the university's internal rules since 1920 have abolished specific statutes for the duties of, and rules for appointment to, individual chairs such as the Marshal Foch Professorship. The University Council is now empowered to make appropriate arrangements for appointments and conditions of service, and the college to which any professorship is allocated (All Souls in this instance) has two representatives on the board of electors.[12][13]

Professors

Details about the Marshal Foch Professors
Name Years Education Notes[n 1]
Gustave Rudler 1920–49 University of Paris Rudler had previously taught at the Sorbonne and at Bedford College, London. He was particularly interested in the life and works of Benjamin Constant, the subject of his doctoral thesis as well as later publications. He also published editions of works by Jean Racine and Molière, and studied the historian Jules Michelet. Rudler was the co-founder and first editor of the French Quarterly, a periodical that ran from 1919 to 1932 which was the first English-language periodical to cover French literary matters. He was regarded at Oxford as a devoted teacher, lecturing entirely in French and asking questions of his audience that had to be answered in French.[21][22]
Jean Seznec 1950–72
École Normale Supérieure
, Paris 		Seznec taught at the University of Cambridge and the French Institute in Florence before the Second World War, when he moved to America to be a professor at Harvard University.[14]
Jacques Scherer 1973–79
École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and Sorbonne University
, Paris 		Scherer was previously Professor of French Literature at the
University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.[15]
Robert Shackleton 1979–86 Oriel College, Oxford Shackleton was Librarian of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1948 to 1966 and Bodley's Librarian (head of Oxford's Bodleian Library) from 1966 to 1979.[16]
Jean-Yves Tadié 1988–91
École Normale Supérieure
, Paris 		Tadié lectured at universities in
Proust (in French and English versions).[17]
Malcolm Bowie 1992–2002 University of Edinburgh and University of Sussex Bowie taught at the
head of the college) from 2002 to 2006.[18]
Michael Sheringham 2004–15 University of Kent Sheringham previously taught at the University of Kent (where he was Professor of French Literature from 1992 to 1995) and at Royal Holloway, University of London (where he was Professor of French from 1995 to 2004).[19]
Catriona Seth 2015 onwards
Université de Paris-Sorbonne
 Seth was a lecturer at the
Université de Lorraine.[20][23]

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, from the start of their professorships,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20] with the exception of Rudler, whose fellowship began in 1926.[21]
References
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  12. ^ "Preface: Constitution and Statute-making Powers of the University". University of Oxford. 16 June 2003. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
  13. ^ "Statute XIV: Employment of Academic and Support Staff by the University". University of Oxford. 18 December 2009. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
  14. ^ a b "Seznec, Prof. Jean Joseph". Who Was Who 1920–2008. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  15. ^ a b "Scherer, Prof. Jacques". Who Was Who 1920–2008. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
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  17. ^ a b "Tadié, Prof. Jean-Yves". Who's Who 2010. Oxford University Press. November 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
  18. ^ a b "Bowie, Prof. Malcolm McNaughtan". Who Was Who 1920–2008. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  19. ^ a b "Sheringham, Prof. Michael Hugh Tempest". Who's Who 2010. Oxford University Press. November 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  20. ^ a b "Appointments". Oxford University Gazette. 146 (5107). University of Oxford. 1 October 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  21. ^ a b "Rudler, Dr Gustave". Who Was Who 1920–2008. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  22. ^ Mason, Haydn (September 2004). "Rudler, Gustave (1872–1957)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 May 2012. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  23. ^ "Professor Catriona Seth". All Souls College. Retrieved 16 December 2015.

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