What is Jean Starobinski?
[[File:Jean Starobinski.jpg|right|210px]] '''Jean Starobinski''' (17 November 1920 &ndash; 4 March 2019) was a Swiss [[literary criticism|literary critic]]. He was born in [[Geneva]], Switzerland. His works on medicine and [[psychiatry]] brought him to study the history of [[melancholia]] (notably in the ''Trois Fureurs'', 1974). He was the first scholar to publish work (in 1964) on [[Ferdinand de Saussure]]'s study of [[anagram]]s. Starobinski was a member of the [[Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques]]. He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Starobinski_Jean |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Starobinski_Jean |title=Jean Starobinski |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> Starobinski died on 4 March 2019 in [[Morges]], [[Switzerland]], aged 98.<ref>[https://www.rts.ch/info/culture/livres/10268880-deces-du-critique-litteraire-et-psychiatre-genevois-jean-starobinski.html Décès du critique littéraire et psychiatre genevois Jean Starobinski] {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>[https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2019/03/06/jean-starobinski-historien-des-idees-est-mort_5432329_3382.html Jean Starobinski, historien des idées, est mort] {{in lang|fr}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.asmp.fr/fiches_academiciens/STAROBINSKI.HTM Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608092708/http://asmp.fr/fiches_academiciens/STAROBINSKI.HTM |date=2016-06-08 }} (in French) * [http://www.jjrousseau.org/bio/starobin.html Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau] (in French) * [http://archives.tsr.ch/search?q_doc-id=personnalite-starobinski Video ''Starobinski, Jean''] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130101081908/http://archives.tsr.ch/search?q_doc-id=personnalite-starobinski |date=2013-01-01 }} (in French) {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Starobinski, Jean}} [[Category:1920 births]] [[Categor