Papers, 1905-1962.

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Papers, 1905-1962.

Includes correspondence with colleagues and relatives; lecture notes and papers written while a student at the University of Leipzig; clippings, photographs, poems and bibliographies. Principal correspondents include Friedrich Bruns, George Nordmeyer, Edward Prokosch, Charles A. Williams, Otto Heller, Alexander R. Hohlfeld, and Otto E. Lessing.

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Bruns, Friedrich, 1878-

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Heller, Otto, 1863-1941

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Otto Heller was born in 1863 in the province of Saxony, Germany. After initial aspirations to be an actor, Heller attended the University of Prague, followed by the universities of Munich, Vienna, and Berlin. He came to the United States in 1883 as a tutor and secured the post of instructor in Greek at LaSalle College in Philadelphia in 1887. After receiving his doctor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1890, he taught briefly at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming ...

Hohlfeld, A. R. (Alexander Rudolf), 1865-1956

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Lessing, Otto Eduard, 1875-

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Nordmeyer, George, 1912-

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Prokosch, Eduard, 1876-1938

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Williams, Charles Allyn, 1877-

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Modern language association of America

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The American Literature Group was formed in 1921, after the Modern Language Association (MLA) reluctantly acknowledged a growing scholarly interest in the writing of the United States. At the time such literature was studied primarily in secondary schools, and most colleges and universities had no courses on the topic. Those that did, usually offered only a single survey course. The idea that American literature could stand on its own as a discipline was viewed with skepticism, it b...

Universität Leipzig

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Nordmeyer, Henry W. (Henry Waldemar), 1891-1980

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Born Magdeburg, Germany; emigrated to U.S. in 1913; professor of German, University of Michigan, 1935-1960; German bibliographer, Modern Language Association of America, 1929-1955. From the description of Papers, 1905-1962. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13676375 ...