Gerda Blumenthal

{{Short description|German-American literary scholar}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}}

'''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.<ref name=WP>'Blumethal, Gerda Renee 1923-2004', ''Washington Post'', April 24, 2004. Reprinted [https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/blumenthal-gerda-renee-1923-2004 online] at encyclopedia.com. Accessed 28 March 2020.</ref>

==Life== Gerda Blumenthal was born on July 26, 1923, in Berlin.<ref name=WP/> She escaped Nazi Germany to America around 1941, and studied in New York.<ref name="Burke2017">{{cite book|last=Burke|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Burke (historian)|title=Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7eneDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA192|year=2017|publisher=Brandeis University Press|isbn=978-1-5126-0033-9|page=192}}</ref> She died on April 18, 2004, in Washington, DC.<ref name=WP/>

==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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