Alan Rowland Chisholm
| Alan Rowland Chisholm | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 November 1888 Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 9 September 1981 (aged 92) Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Notable works |
The Art of Arthur Rimbaud Towards Hérodiade. A Literary Genealogy An Approach to M. Valéry's Jeune Parque Men Were My Milestones Mallarmé's Grand Œuvre |
Alan Rowland Chisholm (1888–1981), often referred to as A. R. Chisholm, was a distinguished professor of French, critic and memorialist. During the more than three decades he spent at the University of Melbourne, the French "program became a world-renowned centre of scholarship in French literature". He was an expert in French symbolist poetry, particularly that of Stéphane Mallarmé.
Alan Rowland Chisholm was born in Bathurst, New South Wales on 6 November 1888. His parents were William Samuel Chisholm, a coach painter, and Eliza, née Heagren.
When his family moved to Sydney, he attended school at public schools in Milsons Point and North Sydney and then from 1905 to 1907 at Fort Street Model School, where he studied French and Latin.
He attended the University of Sydney, where he studied French, under George Gibb Nicholson, and Latin, graduating in 1911 with first class honours in French. He also won the 1911 Frederick Lloyd Memorial Prize for a Latin essay on a specified subject.
After teaching at Fort Street and Glen Innes, he obtained a scholarship which enabled him to travel to Germany in 1912 and study German at the Institut Tilly in Berlin. In 1913 he moved to Paris, where he attended the lectures of Gustave Lanson and was awarded International Phonetic Association certificates of proficiency in the phonetics of French and German.
In 1914 he returned to Sydney and was appointed lecturer in modern languages at the Sydney Teachers' College.
When World War I broke out, Chisholm enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in December 1915. He served on the Western Front in the "Australian Wireless Section (Corps Signals) to act as interpreter on Front Line listening posts for detection of German telephone work by means of listening set". He was demobilised in October 1919.
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