Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Records [Bulk Dates: 1935-1990] , 1935-1990

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Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Records [Bulk Dates: 1935-1990] , 1935-1990

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ua/ldpd_4080195

This collection contains the records of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures of Columbia University under multiple chairpersons from 1935 through 1990. Appointment files, intrinsically sensitive, were not retained on advice from Pearl Spiro, Assistant Provost for Academic Appointments; originals are retained by the Office of Academic Appointments.

4 cubic feet (4 record cartons)

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Bauke, Joseph Padur, 1932-

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Fife, Robert Herndon, 1871-1958

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Huyssen, Andreas.

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Jackson, W.T.H. (William Thomas Hobdell), 1915-

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Bayerschmidt, Carl F. (Carl Frank), 1905-1989

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Columbia University. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED The German language has been taught at Columbia University since the 1880’s. However, the Germanic Languages and Literatures Department was not organized until 1890 under the Division of Modern Languages and Literatures of the Faculty of Philosophy. The department grew rapidly at the beginning of the twentieth century, with professors teaching in both the Graduate Faculties and Columbia College. The six chairpersons represented in these records are Robert H. Fife, ...

Halpert, Inge D., 1929-

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