# Charles Rinn

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**Charles Wilhem Rinn** (6 September 1849, in [Marseille](/source/Marseille) – 1929, in Paris)[1] was a French [hellenist](/source/Hellenist) and [lexicographer](/source/Lexicographer), mostly known for his textbooks.

## Biography

He was [agrégé in grammar](/source/Agr%C3%A9gation) in 1894.[2] After he completed his studies at the [École normale supérieure](/source/%C3%89cole_normale_sup%C3%A9rieure) (1870[3]-1874) he received a two-year assignment as teacher at the lycée de Laval (1874-1875). He later taught at the [Collège Rollin](/source/Coll%C3%A8ge-lyc%C3%A9e_Jacques-Decour) in 1875,[4] then at the [Lycée Fontanes](/source/Lyc%C3%A9e_Condorcet) in 1882, where he ended his career in 1912. He also was a teacher at the [maisons d'éducation de la Légion d'Honneur](/source/Maison_d'%C3%A9ducation_de_la_L%C3%A9gion_d'honneur) from 1890. In 1893-1894, [Roger Martin du Gard](/source/Roger_Martin_du_Gard) was his pupil. In 1895, he was made a chevalier of the [Légion d'honneur](/source/L%C3%A9gion_d'honneur) and an officer in 1913.

## Publications

### Essays and textbooks

- *Discours prononcé par M. Rinn, à la distribution des prix du collège Rollin le 7 août 1877*
- *Morale et patrie : lectures à l’usage des écoles primaires* (in collaboration with [Alfred Mézières](/source/Alfred_M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res) 1885, reprinted in 1894 and 1900)
- *Nouvelle grammaire française de [A. Chassang](/source/Alexis_Chassang)... revue, modifiée et simplifiée* (in collaboration with Louis Humbert 1892, reprinted in 1901, 1903 and 1907)
- *384 dictées choisies... suivies de devoirs oraux et écrits* (in collaboration with Louis Humbert), 1895
- *Notice sur Deltour (Félix), 1822-1904* (in collaboration with [Ernest Dupuy](/source/Ernest_Dupuy)), 1904
- *Un mystérieux enlèvement : the [Clément de Ris affair](/source/Affaire_Cl%C3%A9ment_de_Ris)*, 1910.

### Commentated editions

#### Cicero

- *[M. Tullii Ciceronis pro Archia poeta oratio*, 1881, (reprinted in 1894)
- [*M. Tullii Ciceronis Cato major de Senectute liber ad T. Pomponium Atticum*, 1882

#### Cornelius Nepos

- *Cornelii Nepotis opera* (in collaboration with L.-Wilhelm Rinn); 1878, reprinted in 1884

#### Herodotus

- *Les Histoires d’Hérodote : notice, analyse et extraits* (in collaboration with [Félix Deltour](/source/F%C3%A9lix_Deltour)), 1894

#### Homer

- *L’Iliade et l’Odyssée : notice, analyse et extraits* (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894

#### Jean Racine

- *Les Plaideurs*, 1882

#### L.-Wilhelm Rinn

- *Cours gradué de thèmes latins...*, 1878
- *Littérature, composition et style : leçons professées dans les cours spéciaux de l’Hôtel de ville de Paris*, 1880, (reprinted in 1886 and 1891)

#### Livy

- *Tite-Live : notice, analyse et extraits* (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894

#### Virgil

- *Virgile : notice, analyse et extraits* (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894

#### Xénophon

- *Extraits de l’Anabase et de la Cyropédie*, 1889, (reprinted in 1899)
- *Xénophon : notice, analyse et extraits*, 1894, (in collaboration with Félix Deltour)

#### Collective collections

- *Choix de morceaux traduits des auteurs grecs* (in collaboration with Félix Deltour, 1884, reprinted in 1885, 1889, 1892, 1895 and 1907)
- *Choix de morceaux traduits des auteurs latins* (in collaboration with Félix Deltour, 1885, reprinted in 1892 and 1895)
- *La Tragédie grecque : analyses et extraits du théâtre d’Eschyle, de Sophocle et d’Euripide* (in collaboration with Félix Deltour; reprinted in 1896), 1887
- *Analyses et extraits des auteurs grecs et des auteurs latins*, 1893, (in collaboration with Félix Deltour)

## References

1. ["Charles Rinn (1849-1929)"](http://data.bnf.fr/12992862/charles_rinn/). [Bibliothèque nationale de France](/source/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France). Retrieved 12 August 2016.

1. André Chervel. ["Les agrégés de l'enseignement secondaire. Répertoire 1809-1950"](http://rhe.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/?q=agregsecondaire_laureats). Ressources numériques en histoire de l'éducation. Retrieved 12 August 2016..

1. He interrupted his studies for 6 months as a volunteer in the [Armée de la Loire](/source/Arm%C3%A9e_de_la_Loire).

1. Il prend la suite de son père Louis Rinn brutalement décédé.

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