Adolphe Cohn, who for twenty-eight years was instructor and professor of French at Columbia University, died here yesterday at the age of 79. He also taught several years at Harvard. He retired from the Columbia professorship in 1916.
Professor Cohn served in the Franco-Prussian War. He came to America in 1875, where he was the founder and first president of the “Alliance Francaise.” He was the author of “Montaigne,” regarded as one of the French classics for modern readers in 1907, and collaborated with Prof. B. D. Woodward in 1897 on “Voltaire’s Prose.” Prof. Cohn was a friend and follower of Gambetta, the famous Jewishr Premier of France during the first years of the establishment of the Third Republic.
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