{{Short description|French germanist and philosopher (1866–1933)}} right|thumb|177px|{{center|Charles Andler}} '''Charles Philippe Théodore Andler''' (11 March 1866, Strasbourg – 1 April 1933, Malesherbes, Loiret) was a French Germanist and philosopher.
==Life== Andler was born to a Protestant family in Strasbourg.<ref name=Drefus>Antoinette Blum, 'Charles Andler (1866-1933)', in ''L'affaire Dreyfus: dictionnaire'', 2006, p/117-120</ref> In 1887 and 1888, Andler failed to achieve his ''agrégation'' in philosophy, judged by Jules Lachelier, inspector-general in charge of philosophy, as showing "excessive bias" towards German philosophy. He therefore changed to take the German literature ''agrégation'' in 1889, passing out top of his class.<ref>Robert Alun Jones, ''The development of Durkheim's social realism'', Cambridge University Press, 1999</ref> Andler became professor of German at the Sorbonne in 1901 and at the Collège de France in 1926. Amongst his works were writings on Nietzsche, a commentary on ''The Communist Manifesto'', and a life of his friend Lucien Herr.
==Works== *''Les origines du socialisme d'état en Allemagne'', 1897 – The origins of state socialism in Germany. *''Collection de Documents sur le Pangermanisme'', 4 vols, 1915–1917 – Collection of documents on Pan-Germanism. *''Nietzsche, sa vie et sa pensée'', 6 vols, 1920 – Nietzsche, his life and thinking. *''Vie de Lucien Herr (1864-1926)'', 1932 – The life of Lucien Herr.
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==Further reading== *Ernest Tonnelat, ''Charles Andler: sa vie et son œuvre'', 1937
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