George H. Bauer; Author and Sartre Scholar

George H. Bauer, 62, internationally known scholar and author on French writer Jean Paul Sartre. Born and brought up in Colorado, Bauer earned his degrees at the University of Colorado and Indiana University and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Universite de Grenoble in France. After teaching at Dartmouth College, Northwestern University and the University of Minnesota, Bauer joined the USC faculty in 1977 and retired in 1983 as chairman of the French and Italian department. Witty and prolific, Bauer wrote the 1969 book “Sartre and the Artist,” more than 30 articles and more than 70 papers that he delivered at scholarly meetings around the world on Sartre, Albert Camus, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage and Jean Cocteau. Bauer was considered an authority on existentialism and on gastronomy and homosexuality in French literature. In 1990, he was elected president of the Assn. for the Study of Dada and Surrealism. On June 7 in Manhattan Beach after a short illness.