Jean Starobinski made a career in literature at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Jean Starobinski as Swiss writer (1920-2019).
Jean Starobinski was born in 1920. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He was educated at University of Geneva.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Jean Starobinski is described as medical historian, literary historian and physician writer.
His affiliations include University of Geneva, Johns Hopkins University and University of Basel.
A writer's real subject usually becomes visible only across the whole body of work.
His recorded fields of work are psychiatry and literary criticism.
His work was formally recognised with the Schiller prize, honorary doctor of the University Lille-III and Fellow of the British Academy.
Working from Switzerland shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 2019, at 99. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Affiliated with University of Geneva, Johns Hopkins University and University of Basel
- Educated at University of Geneva
- Worked as medical historian, literary historian and physician writer
