Charles Wilhem Rinn (6 September 1849, in Marseille – 1929, in Paris) was a French hellenist and lexicographer, mostly known for his textbooks.
Biography
He was agrégé in grammar in 1894. After he completed his studies at the École normale supérieure (1870-1874) he received a two-year assignment as teacher at the lycée de Laval (1874-1875). He later taught at the Collège Rollin in 1875, then at the Lycée Fontanes in 1882, where he ended his career in 1912. He also was a teacher at the maisons d'éducation de la Légion d'Honneur from 1890. In 1893-1894, Roger Martin du Gard was his pupil. In 1895, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and an officer in 1913.
Publications
Essays and textbooks
Discours prononcé par M. Rinn, à la distribution des prix du collège Rollin le 7 août 1877 Morale et patrie : lectures à l’usage des écoles primaires (in collaboration with Alfred Mézières 1885, reprinted in 1894 and 1900) Nouvelle grammaire française de A. Chassang... revue, modifiée et simplifiée (in collaboration with Louis Humbert 1892, reprinted in 1901, 1903 and 1907) 384 dictées choisies... suivies de devoirs oraux et écrits (in collaboration with Louis Humbert), 1895 Notice sur Deltour (Félix), 1822-1904 (in collaboration with Ernest Dupuy), 1904 Un mystérieux enlèvement : the , 1910.
Commentated editions
Cicero
[M. Tullii Ciceronis pro Archia poeta oratio, 1881, (reprinted in 1894) [M. Tullii Ciceronis Cato major de Senectute liber ad T. Pomponium Atticum, 1882
Cornelius Nepos
Cornelii Nepotis opera (in collaboration with L.-Wilhelm Rinn) ; 1878, reprinted in 1884
Herodotus
Les Histoires d’Hérodote : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894
Homer
L’Iliade et l’Odyssée : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894
Jean Racine
Les Plaideurs, 1882
L.-Wilhelm Rinn
Cours gradué de thèmes latins..., 1878
Littérature, composition et style : leçons professées dans les cours spéciaux de l’Hôtel de ville de Paris, 1880, (reprinted in 1886 and 1891)
Livy
Tite-Live : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894
Virgil
Virgile : notice, analyse et extraits (in collaboration with Félix Deltour), 1894
Xénophon
Extraits de l’Anabase et de la Cyropédie, 1889, (reprinted in 1899) Xénophon : notice, analyse et extraits, 1894, (in collaboration with Félix Deltour)
Collective collections
Choix de morceaux traduits des auteurs grecs (in collaboration with Félix Deltour, 1884, reprinted in 1885, 1889, 1892, 1895 and 1907) Choix de morceaux traduits des auteurs latins (in collaboration with Félix Deltour, 1885, reprinted in 1892 and 1895) La Tragédie grecque : analyses et extraits du théâtre d’Eschyle, de Sophocle et d’Euripide (in collaboration with Félix Deltour ; reprinted in 1896), 1887 Analyses et extraits des auteurs grecs et des auteurs latins, 1893, (in collaboration with Félix Deltour)