Alfred Remy

Born in Elberfeld, Germany, in 1870, Alfred Remy emigrated to the United States while still young and went on to study at the College of the City of New York, graduating in 1890. He later earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1905, grounding a career that joined language study, teaching, and literary scholarship.

Remy taught languages in several schools and also wrote about music, serving as a music critic for Vogue. That blend of interests shaped his books and editorial work: he is associated with Spanish-language teaching texts including Alarcon's Novelas Cortas Escogidas and Spanish Prose Composition, and he also edited the third edition of Theodore Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.

He died in New York on February 26, 1937. Although he is not widely remembered today, his career reflects the broad, practical scholarship of an era when one writer might comfortably move between classrooms, magazines, and major reference works.