Stanley Corngold
{{Infobox academic|
| occupation = Literary scholar
| name =
| nationality =
| alma_mater = Columbia University
Cornell University
| workplaces = Princeton University
| sub_discipline = German philosophy
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1934}}
| awards = Berlin Prize (2010)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1977)
| doctoral_advisor = Paul de Man
Robert M. Adams
O. J. Matthijs Jolles
| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
| notable_works = Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
| notable_students =
| birth_name = Stanley Alan Corngold
| doctoral_students = Avital Ronell
}}Stanley Alan Corngold{{Cite web |title=Stanley Alan Corngold {{!}} Dean of the Faculty |url=https://dof.princeton.edu/about/clerk-faculty/emeritus/stanley-alan-corngold |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=dof.princeton.edu |archive-date=2022-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319054850/https://dof.princeton.edu/about/clerk-faculty/emeritus/stanley-alan-corngold |url-status=live }} (born 1934) is an American literary scholar. He is an emeritus professor of German and comparative literature at Princeton University.{{Cite web |title=Stanley Corngold |url=https://complit.princeton.edu/people/stanley-corngold |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=Comparative Literature |language=en |archive-date=2022-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407202353/https://complit.princeton.edu/people/stanley-corngold |url-status=live }}
Biography
Corngold was born in Brooklyn in 1934. In 1957, he received his B.A. from Columbia University, which was interrupted by two years of military service.{{Cite web |date=2022-06-17 |title=Bookshelf |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/springsummer-2022/article/bookshelf |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=Columbia College Today |language=en |archive-date=2022-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623191021/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/springsummer-2022/article/bookshelf |url-status=live }} He then studied Sanskrit at the School of Oriental and African Studies and German at Columbia's graduate school. Having taught at the University of Maryland, Corngold entered Cornell University for his Ph.D. program, receiving his doctorate on Rousseau and Kant under the guidance of Paul de Man, Robert M. Adams,{{Cite news |date=1996-12-18 |title=Robert Adams, 81, A Literary Scholar And Classics Editor |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/18/arts/robert-adams-81-a-literary-scholar-and-classics-editor.html |access-date=2022-06-23 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2016-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914204144/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/18/arts/robert-adams-81-a-literary-scholar-and-classics-editor.html |url-status=live }} and O. Matthijs Jolles.
In 1966, Corngold became assistant professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Princeton University, and was named full professor in 1981. His research has focused on translating and interpreting the works of Franz Kafka, and he has published widely on modern German writers and thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Dilthey, Robert Musil, among others. His recent works have focused on the lives and works of philosopher Walter Kaufmann{{cite book | author=Corngold, Stanley | title=Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic | publisher=Princeton University Press | location=Princeton, N. J. | year=2019 | isbn=978-0-691-16501-1 }}
and novelist Thomas Mann.{{cite book | author=Corngold, Stanley | title=The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton | publisher=Princeton University Press | location=Princeton, N. J. | year=2022 | isbn=9780691201641 }}{{cite book | author=Corngold, Stanley | title=Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle | publisher=Princeton University Press | location=Princeton, N. J. | year=2022 | isbn=9781501386527 }}
Among his students at Princeton were Laurence Rickels{{Cite web |title=Laurence Rickels |url=https://egs.edu/biography/laurence-arthur-rickels/ |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=The European Graduate School |language=en-US }} and Avital Ronell.{{Cite web |title=Avital Ronell |url=https://egs.edu/biography/avital-ronell-2/ |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=The European Graduate School |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-10-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025190910/https://egs.edu/biography/avital-ronell-2/ |url-status=live }}
Corngold was a visiting fellow at King's College, Cambridge. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 and a Berlin Prize in 2010, when he completed a book about Kafka's professional experience as an insurance lawyer .{{Cite web |title=Stanley Corngold |url=https://www.americanacademy.de/person/stanley-corngold/ |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=American Academy |language=en-US |archive-date=2020-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216165921/https://www.americanacademy.de/person/stanley-corngold/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Stanley Corngold |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/stanley-corngold/ |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623191021/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/stanley-corngold/ |url-status=live }} He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.{{Cite web |title=Stanley A. Corngold |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/stanley-corngold |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en |archive-date=2022-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623191021/https://www.amacad.org/person/stanley-corngold |url-status=live }}
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