Christian Gauss

Christian Gauss

Christian Frederick Gauss was an American literary critic and professor of literature at Princeton University. He was third dean of the college of Princeton, a chairman of its department of modern languages and director of its public relations, and president of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a mentor and friend to the writers Edmund Wilson and F. Scott Fitzgerald, a member of the national committee of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a Knight of the Legion of Honor of France.