Lionel Gossman, specialist in French literature and history and 'one of the great humanists and scholar-teachers of his generation,' dies at 91
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications Jan. 15, 2021 9:32 a.m. Lionel Gossman, the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, died at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Medicine in Philadelphia on Jan. 11. He was 91. Lionel Gossman, 2013 Photo by William Paulson, 1981 graduate alumnus Gossman joined Princeton’s faculty in 1976 and transferred to emeritus status in 1999. His research and teaching focused on French literature of the 17th and 18th centuries; literature, literary criticism and history as social and cultural institutions; and the wr...
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