Jean starobinski autobiography
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Born in Geneva in 1920 to Jewish parents originally from Poland who are both physicians, Jean Starobinski studies literature and medicine at the University of Geneva.
Since he does not obtain Swiss citizenship until 1948, he is not called up in 1939.
Jean starobinski autobiography
During the war he meets intellectuals and poets in exile including Pierre Jean Jouve, and publishes his first articles of criticism, columns and poetry reviews in resistance magazines such as Lettres and Suisse contemporaine.
Following a period teaching literature at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Jean Starobinski defends his two doctoral theses: one devoted to Rousseau (La Transparence et l’obstacle, 1957), the other, three years later, to the history of the treatment of melancholy from the earliest times until 1900.
From 1958 until his retirement from academic life in 1985, Jean Starobinski teaches the history of ideas, the history of medicine and French literature, mainly at the University o