Jacques Ehrmann (1931-1972) was a French literary theorist and a faculty member of the Yale University French Department from 1961 until his death in 1972.
Jacques Ehrmann was born in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin, France) on March 31 1931, the son of Paul Ehrmann and Henriette Weber. Born in the Alsace region by a twist of fate, as both the Ehrmann and Weber families were originally from Alsace but had left after the 1871 loss to Germany, it just happened...
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Jacques Ehrmann (1931-1972) was a French literary theorist and a faculty member of the Yale University French Department from 1961 until his death in 1972.
Jacques Ehrmann was born in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin, France) on March 31 1931, the son of Paul Ehrmann and Henriette Weber. Born in the Alsace region by a twist of fate, as both the Ehrmann and Weber families were originally from Alsace but had left after the 1871 loss to Germany, it just happened that Mulhouse, then Strasbourg, were the first assignments of his father, an Engineering graduate from "École Polytechnique".
The family, including his older brother Jean-Daniel (JD), came back to Paris in 1939 and he graduated from the Lycée Henri IV with a Baccalauréat in 1949, then studied at the Sorbonne where he obtained a Licence-des-Lettres in 1953. In the meantime, he received a Fulbright scholarship and spent an academic year from 1951 to 1952 at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, the "City of Colleges, Cows and Contentment",...
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