Charles Rinn

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.

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 Affaire Clément de Ris, 1910.

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)