Hermann John Weigand papers 1929-1983

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Hermann John Weigand papers 1929-1983

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1759

The papers consist solely of correspondence to colleagues, students, and family friends. The various topics touched on include views on articles published by Weigand and colleagues, different symposia, and administrative matters. There is also one audiocassette of Weigand dictating letters.

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Weigand, Hermann J. (Hermann John), 1892-1985

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Hermann John Weigand was born in Philadelphia in 1892. Weigand received his bachelor's degree and a doctorate in Germanic studies from the University of Michigan, where he also taught from 1913 to 1918. Weigand then went on to teach at the University of Pennsylvania before his tenure at Yale, which began in 1929. He was a leading United States scholar of Germanic literature, with expertise in medieval literature, the age of Goethe and Romanticism, modern German poetry, and Henrik Ibsen. In 1933 ...