Gerda Renée Blumenthal (1923–2004) was a German-American literary scholar. She taught French and comparative literature at the Catholic University of America from 1968 to 1988.'Blumethal, Gerda Renee 1923-2004', Washington Post, April 24, 2004. Reprinted online at encyclopedia.com. Accessed 28 March 2020.
Life Gerda Blumenthal was born on July 26, 1923, in Berlin. She escaped Nazi Germany to America around 1941, and studied in New York. She died on April 18, 2004, in Washington, DC.
Works The poetic imagination of Georges Bernanos: an essay in interpretation, 1956 André Malraux: the conquest of dread, 1960 Thresholds: a study of Proust, 1984
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