[citation needed] The son graduated from the University of Michigan at 20, worked as a newspaper correspondent in Paris, covering the Dreyfus case during which time he met Oscar Wilde who dedicated one of his poems to Gauss.
[citation needed] At Princeton, Gauss became a full professor of French Literature two years after his arrival; he was chairman of the department of modern languages; and he served as dean.
[2] Though he was not a prolific author or a public figure, Gauss left a mark on literary scholarship: Princeton University's semiannual series of Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism (founded in 1949 by R.P.
Blackmur), and Phi Beta Kappa's annual Christian Gauss Award (est.
Gauss influenced and corresponded frequently with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson.