Albert Thibaudet (1 April 1874 in Tournus, Saône-et-Loire – 16 April 1936 in Geneva) was a French essayist and literary critic. A former student of Henri Bergson, he was a professor of Jean Rousset. He taught at the University of Geneva, and was the co-founder of the Geneva School of literary criticism. He was succeeded in his post by Marcel Raymond. Career Thibaudet's reputation increased through 1920s and 1930s, in part for his regular articles in the Nouvelle Revue Française which he wrote from 1912 until his death, as well as for his numerous books. In 1928, the philosopher Lucien Lévy-Bruhl sponsored him to participate in the first of the Cours universitaires de Davos, international meetings of intellectuals at Davos, Switzerland. In 2008, the Thucydides Centre (a research institute of the Paris Panthéon-Assas University) inaugurated the "Albert Thibaudet Prize", awarded to a French-language writer on international relations. Works La Campagne avec Thucydide, 1922 (on Thucydides) Gustave Flaubert, 1922, republished, 1936 Le Bergsonisme, 1923 (on Henri Bergson) La république des professeurs, B. Grasset, Paris 1927 Physiologie de la critique, 1930 Les idées politiques en France, 1931 Histoire de la littérature française - de 1789 à nos jours, 1936 References 1874 births 1936 deaths People from Tournus French literary critics French essayists Lycée Henri-IV alumni French male essayists