Obituaries
Armand Hoog, 86, Meredith Howland Pyne Professor
of French Literature, Emeritus, died on September 10 in
Boston.
A native of Paris, Hoog studied at the Ecole Normale
Superieure, where he received his teaching degree in 1937.
Before World War II he was associate professor of French
literature at the University of Cairo and lectured
extensively under the auspices of the Alliance
Française.
A lieutenant in the French Army, he was named Chevalier
de la Légion d'Honneur and awarded the Croix de
Guerre for exceptional courage at Dunkirk. After two years
as a prisoner of war in Silesia, he published
Littérature en Silésie, a series of
essays on Racine, Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Baudelaire and
Apollinaire.
Hoog held positions at the University of Strasbourg,
Harvard University and Smith College before coming to
Princeton as a visiting professor in 1954. He joined the
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in 1955 and
retired in 1981.
His publications include Le Temps du Lecteur
(1975) and Stendhal avant Stendhal (1983), as well as
six novels. His first novel, l'Accident (1947), was
awarded the French Academy's Sainte-Beuve Prize; his last,
Victor Hugo chez Victoria, was published in 1993.
Hoog is survived by his wife, Marie-Jacques; three
children, Isabelle, Guillaume and Marjorie; six
grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.
James Ward Smith, 82, professor of philosophy,
emeritus, died on September 26, in Princeton.
A member of the Class of 1938, Smith was a teaching
fellow at Harvard University for a year and then earned his
PhD at Princeton in 1942. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the
US Navy, earning the Bronze Star and seven battle stars and
attaining the rank of lieutenant commander.
In 1946 he returned to teach philosophy at Princeton and
joined the faculty the following year. Known as a dynamic
lecturer, he taught Philosophy and the Modern Mind, the most
popular course in the Philosophy Department, for 30 years.
He retired in 1987.
Smith also held teaching positions at Christ Church
College, Oxford University in the 1950s and 1960s. He
lectured in the Summer Telluride Program at Cornell
University and at Princeton, influencing high school
students to continue on to college. From 1955 to 1961 he
chaired the Program of American Civilization.
Smith was the author of Theme for Reason (1957)
and coeditor with A.L. Jamison of the four-volume study
Religion in American Life (1961).
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